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Immigration Laivs 

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Regulations of July l, 1907 


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IMMIGRATION LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 

IMMIGRATION AOT OF FEBRUARY 20, 1907. 


Note.— The Immigration Act of February 20, 1907, ac f s ote pub a n sh ed 
repeals the act of March 3, 1903, and all prior acts or herein, 
parts of acts inconsistent with the new law. In the back 
of this pamphlet are published such portions of the prior 
acts as are not repealed by or reenacted in the act of Feb¬ 
ruary 20, 1907; also the act of March 2, 1907, regarding 
expatriation. If necessary to refer to the old acts, they 
may be found in the pamphlets u Immigration Laws and 
Regulations ” heretofore issued, or in the United States 
Statutes at Large, as follows: 


Act approved March 3, 1875: 18 Stat., part 3, page 477. 

Act approved August 3, 1882: 22 Stat., page 214. 

Act approved June 26, 1884 (sec. 22 only) : 23 Stat., page 58. 
Act approved February 26, 1885: 23 Stat., page 332. 

Act approved February 23, 1887: 24 Stat., page 414. 

Act approved October 19, 1888: 25 Stat., page 565. 

Act approved March 3, 1891: 26 Stat., page 1084. 

Act approved February 15, 1893 (sec. 7) : 27 Stat., page 449. 
Act approved March 3, 1893: 27 Stat., page 569. 

Act approved August 18, 1894: 28 Stat., page 390. 

Act approved March 2, 1895: 28 Stat., page 7S0. 

Act approved June 6, 1900: 31 Stat., page 611. 

Act approved April 29, 1902: 32 Stat., part 1 , page 176. 

Act approved March 3, 1903: 32 Stat., part 1, page 1213. 

Act approved March 22, 1904: 33 Stat., part 1, page 144. 

Act approved April 28, 1904: 33 Stat., part 1, page 591. 

Act approved February 3, 1905: 33 Stat., part 1, page 684. 


List of im¬ 
migration acts. 


ACT OF FEBRUARY 20, 1907. 

AN ACT to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United 

States. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa¬ 
tives of the United States of' America in Congress assem¬ 
bled, That there shall be levied, collected, and paid a tax Head tax: 
of four dollars for every alien entering the United 

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IMMIGRATION ACT OF FEBRUARY 20, 1007. 


Head tax: 

To whom 
paid ; 


B y 
paid. 


whom 


Head tax, 
fines, and rent¬ 
als, to consti¬ 
tute— 


Immigrant 
fund: 

For what 
used. 


Head tax: 

To be lien 
upon vessel; 


How pay¬ 
ment enforced ; 

Classes ex¬ 
empted from 
payment of; 


Payment on 
account aliens 
from contigu¬ 
ous territory ; 


N o 
than 
000 to 

I m m i 
fund; 


more 
$ 2 , 500 ,- 
go into 

grant 


States.® The said tax shall be paid to the collector of 
customs of the port or customs district to which said alien 
shall come, or, if there be no collector at such port or 
district, then to the collector nearest thereto, by the 
master, agent, owner, or consignee of the vessel, trans¬ 
portation line, or other conveyance or vehicle bringing 
such alien to the United States. The money thus col¬ 
lected, together with all fines and rentals b collected under 
the laws regulating the immigration of aliens into the 
United States, shall be paid into the Treasury of the 
United States, and shall constitute a permanent appro¬ 
priation to be called the “ immigrant fund,” to be used 
under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce and 
Labor to defray the expense of regulating the immigra¬ 
tion of aliens into the United States under said laws, in¬ 
cluding the contract labor laws, the cost of reports of 
decisions of the Federal courts, and digest thereof, for 
the use of the Commissioner-General of Immigration, 
and the salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, and 
employees appointed to enforce said laws. The tax im¬ 
posed by this section shall be a lien upon the vessel, or 
other vehicle of carriage or transportation bringing such 
aliens to the United States, and shall be a debt in favor 
of the United States against the owner or owners of such 
vessel, or other vehicle, and the payment of such tax may 
be enforced by any legal or equitable remedy. That the 
said tax shall not be levied upon aliens who shall enter 
the United States after an uninterrupted residence of at 
least one year, immediately preceding such entrance, in 
the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland, the Republic of 
Cuba, or the Republic of Mexico, nor upon otherwise ad¬ 
missible residents of any possession of the United States, 
nor upon aliens in transit through the United States, nor 
upon aliens who have been lawfully admitted to the 
United States and who later shall go in transit from one 
part of the United States to another through foreign 
contiguous territory: 0 Provided, That the Commis¬ 
sioner-General of Immigration, under the direction or 
with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and 
Labor, by agreement with transportation lines, as pro¬ 
vided in section thirty-two of this Act, may arrange in 
some other manner for the payment of the tax imposed 
by this section upon any or all aliens seeking admission 
from foreign contiguous territory : d Provided further , 
That if in any fiscal year the amount of money collected 
under the provisions of this section shall exceed two 
million five hundred thousand dollars, the excess above 


° For specific exceptions, see Rule 2. 

b For method of depositing fines and rentals, see Rule 3; for 
procedure in collecting fines and reporting suits for collection, see 
Rules 28, 20, and 30. 

c See paragraph (p), Rule 2. 
d See Rules 2, 25, and 27. 



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IMMIGRATION ACT CF FEBRUARY 20, 1901 

that amount shall not be added to the u immigrant fund Head tax: 
Provided f urther, That the provisions of this section shall (;u E ^ epti ^s— 
not apply to aliens arriving in Guam, Porto Rico, or RicoT’and °Ha°- 
Hawaii; but if any such alien, not having become a citi- wal1 ' 
zen of the United States, shall later arrive at any port or 
place of the United States on the North American Conti¬ 
nent the provisions of this section shall apply: a Provided Passports: 
further, That whenever the President shall be satisfied t e t d 

that passports issued by any foreign government to its detriment ia° 
citizens to go to any country other than the United hoiders nd to ion be 
States or to any insular possession of the United States rejected, 
or to the Canal Zone are being used for the purpose of 
enabling the holders to come to the continental territory 
of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions 
therein, the President may refuse to permit such citizens 
of the country issuing such passports to enter the conti¬ 
nental territory of the United States from such other 
country or from such insular possessions or from the 
Canal Zone. * & 

Sec. 2. That the following classes of aliens shall be Excluded 
excluded from admission into the United States: All classes: 
idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, epileptics, insane idiots, in¬ 
persons, and persons who have been insane within five sane ’ etc ’ ’ 
3^ears previous; persons who have had two or more at¬ 
tacks of insanity at any time previously; paupers; per- S 0 ^g U f i e k r e s 1 ’ pe t r Q 
sons likely to become a public charge ; 0 professional become a y pui> 
beggars; persons afflicted with tuberculosis or with a h Viseased : ; 
loathsome or dangerous contagious disease ; d persons not 
comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded ph^slcafiy 7 de- 
classes who are found to be and are certified by the fective ; 
examining surgeon as being mentally or physically de¬ 
fective, such mental or physical defect being of a nature 
which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a 
living ; 0 persons who have been convicted of or admit Criminals; 
having committed a felony or other crime or misde¬ 
meanor involving moral turpitude; polygamists, or per- roiygamists; 
sons who admit their belief in the practice of polygamy, 
anarchists, or persons who believe in or advocate the Anarchists; 
overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the 
United States, or of all government, or of all forms of 
law, or the assassination of public officials; prostitutes, et ^ > r ostitutes ’ 
or women or girls coming into the United States for the 
purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral pur¬ 
pose; persons who procure or attempt to bring in pros- 


° See Rule 2. 

6 For President’s proclamation and regulations drawn there¬ 
under, see Rule 21. 

c For provisions for landing under bond persons likely to be¬ 
come public charges and persons certified for physical defects, see 
Rule 20. 

d For provision for placing in hospital, “ with the express per¬ 
mission of the Secretary,” persons affiicted with tuberculosis or 
with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease, see Rule 10. 



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IMMIGRATION ACT OF FEBRUARY 20 , 1907 . 


Excluded 
classes: 

Contract la¬ 
borers ; 


Ass is ted 
aliens ; 


Children un¬ 
der 16 ; 


Exceptions— 

Offenses po¬ 
litical ; 

Transits ; 


Skilled la¬ 
bor ; 


Actors, ar¬ 
tists, etc. 


Prostitutes: 

I mportation 
or holding pe¬ 
nalized ; 


titutes or women or girls for the purpose of prostitution 
or for any other immoral purpose; persons hereinafter 
called contract laborers, who have been induced or solic¬ 
ited to migrate to this country by offers or promises of 
employment or in consequence of agreements, oral, writ¬ 
ten or printed, express or implied, to perform labor in 
this country of any kind, skilled or unskilled; those who 
have been, within one year from the date of application 
for admission to the United States, deported as having 
been induced or solicited to migrate as above described; 
any person whose ticket or passage is paid for with the 
money of another, or who is assisted by others to come, 
unless it is affirmatively and satisfactorily shown that 
such person does not belong to one of the foregoing ex¬ 
cluded classes, and that said ticket or passage was not 
paid for by any corporation, association, society, munici¬ 
pality, or foreign government, either directly or indi¬ 
rectly; all children under sixteen years of age, unaccom¬ 
panied by one or both of their parents, at the discretion 
of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor or under such 
regulations as he may from time to time prescribe: a Pro¬ 
vided , That nothing in this Act shall exclude, if other¬ 
wise admissible, persons convicted of an offense purely 
political, not involving moral turpitude: Provided fur¬ 
ther , That the provisions of this section relating to the 
payments for tickets or passage by any corporation, asso¬ 
ciation, society, municipality, or foreign government shall 
not apply to the tickets or passage of aliens in immediate 
and continuous transit through the United States to for¬ 
eign contiguous territory: And provided further , That 
skilled labor may be imported if labor of like kind un¬ 
employed can not be found in this country: And provided 
f urther , That the provisions of this law applicable to con¬ 
tract labor shall not be held to exclude professional actors, 
artists, lecturers, singers, ministers of any religious de¬ 
nomination, professors for colleges or seminaries, per¬ 
sons belonging to any recognized learned profession, or 
persons employed strictly as personal or domestic serv¬ 
ants. 

Sec. 3. That the importation into the United States of 
any alien woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution, 
or for any other immoral purpose, is hereby forbidden; 
and whoever shall, directly or indirectly, import, or* at¬ 
tempt to import, into the United States, any alien woman 
or girl for the purpose of prostitution, or for any other 
immoral purpose, or whoever shall hold or attempt to 
hold any alien woman or girl for any such purpose in 
pursuance of such illegal importation, or whoever shall 
keep, maintain, control, support, or harbor in any house 
or other place, for the purpose of prostitution, or for any 
other immoral purpose, any alien woman or girl, within 
three years after she shall have entered the United States, 


° For regulations, see Rule 5. 



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IMMIGRATION ACT OF FEBRUARY 20, 1907. 

shall, in every such case, be deemed guilty of a felony, and Prostitute*: 
on conviction thereof be imprisoned not more than five 
years and pay a fine of not more than five thousand dol¬ 
lars; and any alien woman or girl who shall be found an Deportation 
inmate of a house of prostitution or practicing prostitu- three years? 1 n 
tion, at any time within three years after she shall have 
entered the United States, shall be deemed to be unlaw¬ 
fully within the United States and shall be deported as 
provided by sections twenty and twenty-one of this Act.® 

Sec. 4. That it shall be a misdemeanor for any person, Contract la- 
company, partnership, or corporation, in any manner * ,orers: 
whatsoever, to prepay the transportation or in any way importation 
to assist or encourage the importation or migration of any of ’ forbidden ; 
contract laborer or contract laborers into the United 
States, unless such contract laborer or contract laborers 
are exempted under the terms of the last two provisos con¬ 
tained in section two of this Act. 

Sec. 5. That for every violation of any of the provi- . Penalty for 
sions of section four of this Act the person, partnership, importing * 
company, or corporation violating the same, by know¬ 
ingly assisting, encouraging, or soliciting the migration 
or importation of any contract laborer into the United 
States shall forfeit and pay for every such offense the 
sum of one thousand dollars, which may be sued for and 
recovered by the United States, or by any person who 
shall first bring his action therefor in his own name and 
for his own benefit, including any such alien thus prom¬ 
ised labor or service of any kind as aforesaid, as debts of 
like amount are now recovered in the courts of the United 
States; and separate suits may be brought for each alien 
thus promised labor or service of any kind as aforesaid. * 6 
And it shall be the duty of the district attorney of the ne J J s - t s Q 
proper district to prosecute every such suit when brought cute suits ; 
by the United States. 

Sec. 6. That it shall be unlawful and be deemed a vio- Advertising 
lation of section four of this Act to assist or encourage f01 ’ f01bidden ’ 
the importation or migration of any alien by promise of 
employment through advertisements printed and pub¬ 
lished in any foreign country; and any alien coming to 
this country in consequence of such an advertisement shall 
be treated as coming under promise or agreement as con¬ 
templated ip section two of this Act, and the penalties 
imposed by section five of this Act shall be applicable to 
such a case: Provided , That this section shall not apply to. Exception, 
States or Territories, the District of Columbia, or places i n n f d VO Territo- 
subject to the jurisdiction of the United States advertis- ries - 
ing the inducements they offer for immigration thereto, 
respectively. 

Sec. 7. That no transportation company or owner or soliciting: 
owners of vessels, or others engaged in transporting aliens Forbidden on 
into the United States, shall, directly or indirectly, either L a jL tra rnmn°r 
by writing, printing, or oral representation, solicit, invite, nies; 


a See paragraph (c), Rule 31, and Rules 34-38. 

6 For method of reporting, see Rule 30. 



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IMMIGRATION ACT OF FEBRUARY 20, 1907. 


soliciting: or encourage the immigration of any aliens into the 

United States, but this shall not be held to prevent trans¬ 
portation companies from issuing letters, circulars, or 
advertisements, stating the sailings of their vessels and 
terms and facilities of transportation therein; and for a 
violation of this provision, any such transportation com¬ 
pany, and any such owner or owners of vessels, and all 
others engaged in transporting aliens into the United 
Penalty for. States, and the agents by them employed, shall be sever¬ 
ally subjected to the penalties imposed by section five of 
this Act. 

landing* wf * 1 Sec. That any person, including the master, agent, 
owner, or consignee of any vessel, who shall bring into 
Penalty-for. or land in the United States, by vessel or otherwise, or 
who shall attempt, by himself or through another, to 
bring into or land in the United States, by vessel or other¬ 
wise, any alien not duly admitted by an immigrant in¬ 
spector or not lawfully entitled to enter the United States 
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on 
conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding one thou¬ 
sand dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceed¬ 
ing two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment for 
each and every alien so landed or brought in or attempted 
to be landed or brought in.® 

Fine $100: Sec. 9. That it shall be unlawful for any person, in¬ 

ti i F re b a ri s g ri c l u di n g any transportation company other than railway 
aliens; ‘ lines entering the United States from foreign contiguous 
territory, or the owner, master, agent, or consignee of any 
vessel to bring to the United States any alien subject to 
any of the following disabilities: Idiots, imbeciles, epi¬ 
leptics, or persons afflicted with tuberculosis or with a 
loathsome or dangerous contagious disease, and if it shall 
appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Commerce 
and Labor that any alien so brought to the United States 
was afflicted with any of the said diseases or disabilities 
at the time of foreign embarkation and that the existence 
of such disease or disability might have been detected by 
means of a competent medical examination at such time, 
of such person or transportation company, or the master, 
agent, owner, or consignee of any such vessel shall pay 
to the collector of customs of the customs district in which 
the port of arrival is located the sum of one hundred dol¬ 
lars for each and every violation of the provisions of this 
section; and no vessel shall be granted clearance papers 
pending the determination of the question of the liability 
to the payment of such fine, and in the event such fine is 
imposed, while it remains unpaid, nor shall such fine be 
remitted or refunded: Provided , That clearance may be 
granted prior to the determination of such questions upon 
the deposit of a sum sufficient to cover such fine and costs, 
such sum to be named by the Secretary of Commerce and 
Labor. * 6 


Method 

collecting. 


a For method of reporting, see Rule 30. 

6 For method of imposing, see Rule 2S. 



IMMIGRATION ACT OF FEBRUARY 20, 1907. 


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Sec. 10. That the decision of the board of special in¬ 
quiry, hereinafter provided for, based upon the certificate 
of the examining medical officer, shall be final as to the 
rejection of aliens affected with tuberculosis or with a 
loathsome or dangerous contagious disease, or with any 
mental or physical disability which would bring such 
aliens within any of the classes excluded from admission 
to the United States under section two of this Act.® 

Sec. 11. That upon the certificate of a medical officer 
of the United States Public Health and Marine Hos¬ 
pital Service to the effect that a rejected alien is helpless 
from sickness, mental or physical disability, or infancy, 
if such alien is accompanied by another alien whose pro¬ 
tection or guardianship is required by such rejected alien, 
such accompanying alien may also be excluded, and the 
master, agent, owner, or consignee of the vessel in which 
such alien and accompanying alien are brought shall be 
required to return said alien and accompanying alien in 
the same manner as vessels are required to return other 
rejected aliens. * 6 

Sec. 12. That upon the arrival of any alien by water at 
any port within the United States,® it shall be the duty 
of the master or commanding officer of the steamer, sail¬ 
ing or other vessel having said alien on board to deliver 
to the immigration officers at the port of arrival lists 
or manifests made at the time and place of embarkation 
of such alien on board such steamer or vessel, which shall, 
in answer to questions at the top of said list, state as to 
each alien the full name, age, and sex; whether married 
or single; the calling or occupation; whether able to read 
or write; the nationality; the race; the last residence; 
the name and address of the nearest relative in the coun¬ 
try from which the alien came; the seaport for landing 
in the United States; the final destination, if any, beyond 
the port of landing; whether having a ticket through 
to such final destination; whether the alien has paid his 
own passage or whether it has been paid by any other per¬ 
son or by any corporation, society, municipality, or gov¬ 
ernment, and if so, by whom; whether in possession of 
fifty dollars, and if less, how much; whether going to 
join a relative or friend, and if so, what relative or 
friend, and his or her name and complete address; 
whether ever before in the United States, and if so, 
when and where; whether ever in prison or almshouse 
or an institution or hospital for the care and treatment 
of the insane or supported by charity; whether a polyg¬ 
amist; whether an anarchist; whether coming by reason 
of any offer, solicitation, promise, or agreement, express 
or implied, to perform labor in the United States, 


Appeals: 

Not allowed 
aliens afflicted 
with tubercu¬ 
losis or danger¬ 
ous contagious 
diseases. 


Guardian en 
voyage: 

Transporta¬ 
tion companies 
to bear ex¬ 
pense of. 


Manifests: 

Incoming 
passengers— 


What to con¬ 
tain ; 


® See Rules G and 20; also latter part of section 25. 

6 See Rule 12. 

c For the procurement of manifests from Canadian transporta¬ 
tion companies, see paragraph (e), Rule 25. 



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IMMIGRATION ACT OF FEBRUARY 20, 1907. 


Manifests: 


Outgoing 
passengers— 


What to con¬ 
tain ; 


Penalty ; 


With whom 
deposited ; 


Of aliens 
from the Phil¬ 
ippines, Guam, 
Porto Rico, 
and Hawaii; 


How made 
up; 


and what is the alien's condition of health, mental and 
physical, and whether deformed or crippled, and if so, 
for how long and from what cause; that it shall fur¬ 
ther be the duty of the master or commanding officer of 
every vessel taking alien passengers out of the United 
States, from any port thereof, to file before departure 
therefrom with the collector of customs of such port a 
complete list of all such alien passengers taken on board. 
Such list shall contain the name, age, sex, nationality, 
residence in the United Slates, occupation, and the time 
of last arrival of every such alien in the United States, 
and no master of any such vessel shall be granted clear¬ 
ance papers for his vessel until he has deposited such list 
or lists with the collector of customs at the port of depar¬ 
ture and made oath that they are full and complete as to 
the name and other information herein required concern¬ 
ing each alien taken on board his vessel ; a and any neg¬ 
lect or omission to comply with the requirements of this 
section shall be punishable as provided in section fifteen 
of this Act. & That the collector of customs with whom any 
such list has been deposited in accordance with the pro¬ 
visions of this section, shall promptly notify the Com¬ 
missioner-General of Immigration that such list has been 
deposited with him as provided, and shall make such 
further disposition thereof as may be required by regu¬ 
lations to be issued by the Commissioner-General of 
Immigration with the approval of the Secretary of Com¬ 
merce and Labor: 0 Provided , That in the case of vessels 
making regular trips to ports of the United States the 
Commissioner-General of Immigration, with the approval 
of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, may, when ex¬ 
pedient, arrange for the delivery of such lists of outgoing 
aliens at a later date: 0 Provided further , That it shall 
be the duty of the master or commanding officer of any 
vessel sailing from ports in the Philippine Islands, Guam, 
Porto Rico, or Hawaii to any port of the United States 
on the North American Continent to deliver to the immi¬ 
gration officers at the port of arrival lists or manifests 
made at the time and place of embarkation, giving the 
names of all aliens on board said vessel.^ 

Sec. 13. That all aliens arriving by water at the ports 
of the United States shall be listed in convenient groups, 
and no one list or manifest shall contain more than thirty 
names. To each alien or head of a family shall be given 
a ticket on which shall be written his name, a number or 
letter designating the list in which his name, and so forth, 
is contained, and his number on said list, for convenience 

° For the procurement of manifests from Canadian transporta¬ 
tion companies, see paragraph (e), Rule 25. 

b For method of imposing fine, see Rule 29. 

0 See Rule XXIX, statistical regulations. 

d See paragraphs (&) and (c), Rule I, statistical regulations. 








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IMMIGRATION ACT OP FEBRUARY 20, 1907. 


of identification on arrival. Each list or manifest shall Manifests: 
be verified by the signature and the oath of affirmation of an J° JUon^to 
the master or commanding officer, or the first or second by master, as 
below him in command, taken before an immigration of contents; 688 
officer at the port of arrival, to the effect that he has 
caused the surgeon of said vessel sailing therewith to make 
a physical and oral examination of each of said aliens, 
and that from the report of said surgeon and from his 
own investigation he believes that no one of said aliens is 
an idiot, or imbecile, or a feeble-minded person, or insane 
person, or a pauper, or is likely to become a public charge, 
or is afflicted with tuberculosis or with a loathsome or 
dangerous contagious disease, or is a person who has been 
convicted of, or who admits having committed a felony 
or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, 
or is a polygamist or one admitting belief in the practice 
of polygamy, or an anarchist, or under promise or agree¬ 
ment, express or implied, to perform labor in the United 
States, or a prostitute, or a woman or girl coming to the 
United States for the purpose of prostitution, or for any 
other immoral purpose, and that also, according to the 
best of his knowledge and belief, the information in said 
lists or manifests concerning each of said aliens named 


therein is correct and true in every respect. 

Sec. 14. That the surgeon of said vessel sailing there- an Jo be^signed 
with shall also sign each of said lists or manifests and by surgeon; 
make oath or affirmation in like manner before an immi¬ 
gration officer at the port of arrival, stating his profes¬ 
sional experience and qualifications as a physician and 
surgeon, and that he has made a personal examination of 
each of the said aliens minted therein, and that the said 
list or manifest, according to the best of his knowledge 
and belief, is full, correct, and true in all particulars rela¬ 
tive to the mental and physical condition of said aliens. 

If no surgeon sails with any vessel bringing aliens the 
mental and physical examinations and the verifications 
of the lists or manifests shall be made by some competent 
surgeon employed by the owners of the said vessel.® 

Sec. 15. That in the case of the failure of the master or passenger™— 11 g 
commanding officer of any vessel to deliver to the said 
immigration officers lists or manifests of all aliens on 
board thereof, as required in sections twelve, thirteen, and 
fourteen of this Act, he shall pay to the collector of cus¬ 
toms at the port of arrival the sum of ten dollars for each ?1 o® naIty 
alien concerning whom the above information is not con¬ 
tained in any list as aforesaid : Provided , That in the case 
of failure without good cause to deliver the list of passen- passen ger S _ 
gers required by section twelve of this Act from the mas¬ 
ter or commanding officer of every vessel taking alien 
passengers out of the United States, the penalty shall be^naity of 
paid to the collector of customs at the port of departure 


o f 


Outgoing 


a See paragraph (<7), Rule 29. 



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IMMIGRATION ACT OF FEBRUARY 20, 1907. 


Manifests: 

Aggrega t e 
fines not to ex¬ 
ceed $100. 

Inspection: 


On board 
vessel; 


Landing for, 
not actual 
landing ; 


If placed in 
station, immi¬ 
gration officers 
responsible. 


Medical cx- 
amination: 

To be made 
by 1*. H. and 
M. H.surgeons; 


P. II. and M. 
H. Service to 
be reimbursed 
for surgeons’ 
salaries. 


U n lawful 
landing: 


and shall be a fine of ten dollars for each alien not in¬ 
cluded in said list ; but in no case shall the aggregate 
fine exceed one hundred dollars.® 

Sec. 16. That upon the receipt by the immigration offi¬ 
cers at any port of arrival of the lists or manifests of 
incoming aliens provided for in sections twelve, thirteen, 
and fourteen of this Act, it shall be the duty of said offi¬ 
cers to go or to send competent assistants to the vessel to 
which said lists or manifests refer, and there inspect all 
such aliens, or said immigration officers may order a tem¬ 
porary removal of such aliens for examination at a desig¬ 
nated time and place, but such temporary removal shall 
not be considered a landing, nor shall it relieve the trans¬ 
portation lines, masters, agents, owners, or consignees of 
the vessel upon which said aliens are brought to any port 
of the United States from any of the obligations which, 
in case such aliens remain on board, would, under the 
provisions of this Act, bind the said transportation lines, 
masters, agents, owners, or consignees: Provided , That 
where a suitable building is used for the detention and 
examination of aliens the immigration officials shall there 
take charge of such aliens, and the transportation com¬ 
panies, masters, agents, owners, and consignees of the 
vessels bringing such aliens shall be relieved of the re¬ 
sponsibility for their detention thereafter until the return 
of such aliens to their care. 

Sec. IT. That the physical and mental examination of 
all arriving aliens shall be made by medical officers of 
the United States Public Health and Marine-Hospital 
Service, who shall have had at least two years’ experience 
in the practice of their profession since receiving the 
degree of doctor of medicine and who shall certify for 
the information of 1 lie immigration officers and the boards 
of special inquiry hereinafter provided for, any and all 
physical and mental defects or diseases observed by said 
medical officers in any such alien, 5 or, should medical offi¬ 
cers of the United States Public Health and Marine- 
Hospital Service be not available, civil surgeons of not 
less than four years’ professional experience may be em¬ 
ployed in such emergency for such service, upon such 
terms as may be prescribed by the Commissioner-General 
of Immigration under tHe direction or with the approval 
of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. The United 
States Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service shall 
be reimbursed by the immigration service for all expendi¬ 
tures incurred in carrying out the medical inspection of 
aliens under regulations of the Secretary of Commerce 
and Labor, 

Sec. 18. That it shall be the duty of the owners, officers, 
or agents of any vessel or transportation line, other than 


n For procedure, see Rule 29. 
6 See Rule 9. 




IMMIGRATION ACT OF FEBRUARY 20, 1907. 


13 


those railway lines which may enter into a contract as 
provided in section thirty-two of this Act, bringing an 
alien to the United States to prevent the landing of such 
alien in the United States at any time or place other than 
as designated by the immigration officers, and the negli¬ 
gent failure of any such owner, officer, or agent to comply 
with the foregoing requirements shall be deemed a mis¬ 
demeanor and be punished by a line in each case of not 
less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars 
or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or 
by both such fine and imprisonment ; a and every such 
alien so landed shall be deemed to be unlawfully in the 
United States and shall be deported as provided in sec¬ 
tions twenty and twenty-one of this Act. * & 

Sec. 19. That all aliens brought to this country in vio¬ 
lation of law shall, if practicable, be immediately sent 
back to the country whence they respectively came on the 
vessels bringing them. The cost of their maintenance 
while on land, as well as the expense of the return of such 
aliens, shall be borne by the owner or owners of the vessels 
on wdiich they respectively came; and if any master, 
person in charge, agent, owner, or consignee of any such 
vessel shall refuse to receive back on board thereof, or on 
board of any other vessel owned or operated by the same 
interests, such aliens, or shall fail to detain them thereon, 
or shall refuse or fail to return them to the foreign port 
from which they came, or to pay the cost of their main¬ 
tenance while on land, or shall make any charge for the 
return of any such alien, or shall take any security from 
him for the payment of such charge, such master, person 
in charge, agent, owner, or consignee shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, on conviction, be pun¬ 
ished by a fine of not less than three hundred dollars for 
each and every such offense; and no vessel shall have 
clearance from any port of the United States while any 
such fine is unpaid:® Provided , That the Commissioner- 
General of Immigration, with the approval of the Secre¬ 
tary of Commerce and Labor, may suspend, upon condi¬ 
tions to be prescribed by the Commissioner-General of 
Immigration, the deportation of any alien found to have 
come in violation of any provision of this xVct, if, in his 
judgment, the testimony of such alien is necessary on 
behalf of the United States Government in the prosecu¬ 
tion of offenders against any provision of this Act: Pro¬ 
vided , That the cost of maintenance of any person so 
detained resulting from such suspension of deportation 
shall be paid from the “ immigrant fund ” c but no alien 
certified, as provided in section seventeen of this Act, to 
be suffering from tuberculosis or from a loathsome or 
dangerous contagious disease other than one of quaran- 

a For method of reporting, see Rule 30. 

& See paragraph ( <1 ), Rule 33 , and Rules 34-38. 

c See Rule 14, 


Unlawful 
landing: 

E x c e p t i o n 
under sec. 32 ; 

Penalty for ; 


Deportation 

of aliens so 
landed. 


Deportation: 

By vessel 
bringing; 

Cost of, and 
o f detention, 
to be borne by 
steamship com¬ 
panies ; 

Penalty for 
failure to hold, 
deport, or 
maintain ; 


Penalty for 
taking secur¬ 
ity. 


Witnesses: 

Authority to 
hold ; 


Cost paid 
from immi¬ 
grant fund. 


Hospital treat¬ 
ment — by ex¬ 
press permis¬ 
sion of Secre¬ 
tary : 

Of those suf¬ 
fering with 
tuberculosis or 
loathsome o r 
dangerous dis¬ 
ease. 




14 


IMMIGRATION ACT OF FEBRUARY 20, 1907. 


Insane aliens: 

Holding for 
treatment, ex¬ 
pense immi¬ 
grant fund. 


Deportation: 

Unlawful 
residents and 
public charges; 


IIow expense 
of, to be borne. 


Rond: 

Releasing ar¬ 
rested aliens 
on. 


Deportation: 

Of aliens 
subject there¬ 
to : 


Penalty 
against vessels 
for refusal to 
deport on war¬ 
rant ; 


tinable nature shall be permitted to land for medical 
treatment thereof in any hospital in the United States, 
unless with the express permission of the Secretary 
of Commerce and Labor: a Provided , That upon the cer¬ 
tificate of a medical officer of the United States Public 
Health and Marine-Hospital Service to the effect that the 
health or safety of an insane alien would be unduly 
imperiled by immediate deportation, such alien may, at 
the expense of the “ immigrant fund,” be held for treat¬ 
ment until such time as such alien may, in the opinion 
of such medical officer, be safely deported.® 

Sec. 20. That any alien who shall enter the United 
States in violation of law, and such as become public 
charges from causes existing prior to landing, shall, upon 
the warrant of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, be 
taken into custody and deported to the country whence 
he came at any time within three years after the date of 
his entry into the United States. Such deportation, 
including one-half of the entire cost of removal to the 
port of deportation, shall be at the expense of the con¬ 
tractor, procurer, or other person by whom the alien was 
unlawfully induced to enter the United States, or, if that 
can not be done, then the cost of removal to the port of 
deportation shall be at the expense of the “ immigrant 
fund ” provided for in section one of this Act, and the 
deportation from such port shall be at the expense of the 
owner or owners of such vessel or transportation line bv 
which such aliens respectively earned Provided , That 
pending the final disposal of the case of any alien so taken 
into custody he may be released under a bond in the 
penalty of not less than five hundred dollars with secur¬ 
ity approved by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 
conditioned that such alien shall be produced when re¬ 
quired for a hearing or hearings in regard to the charge 
upon which he has been taken into custody, and for depor¬ 
tation if he shall be found to be unlawfully within the 
United States. 0 

Sec. 21. That in case the Secretary of Commerce and 
Labor shall be satisfied that an alien has been found in 
the United States in violation of this Act, or that an alien 
is subject to deportation under the provisions of this Act 
or of any law of the United States, he shall cause such 
alien within the period of three years after landing or 
entry therein to be taken into custody and returned to the 
country whence he came, as provided by section twenty 
of this Act, 6 and a failure or refusal on the part of the 
masters, agents, owners, or consignees of vessels to com¬ 
ply with the order of the Secretary of Commerce and 
Labor to take on board, guard safely, and return to the 
country whence he came any alien ordered to be deported 


a See Rule 10. 

6 See Rules 31-37. 

0 See paragraph (g), Rule 35. 



IMMIGRATION ACT OF FEBRUARY 20, 1907. 

under the provisions of this Act shall be punished by the 
imposition of the penalties prescribed in section nineteen 
of this Act : a Provided , That when in the opinion of the 
Secretary of Commerce and Labor the mental or physical 
condition of such alien is such as to require personal care 
and attendance, he may employ a suitable person for that 
purpose, who shall accompany such alien to his or her 
final destination, and the expense incident to such service 
shall be defrayed in like manner. 6 

Sec. 22. That the Commissioner-General of Immigra¬ 
tion, in addition to such other duties as may by law be as¬ 
signed to him, shall, under the direction of the Secretary 
of Commerce and Labor, have charge of the administra¬ 
tion of all laws relating to the immigration of aliens into 
the United States, and shall have the control, direction, 
and supervision of all officers, clerks, and employees ap¬ 
pointed thereunder. He shall establish such rules and 
regulations, prescribe such forms of bond, reports, entries, 
and other papers, and shall issue from time to time such 
instructions, not inconsistent with law, as he shall deem 
best calculated for carrying out the provisions of this 
Act and for protecting the United States and aliens 
migrating thereto from fraud and loss, and shall have 
authority to enter into contract for the support and relief 
of such aliens as mhy fall into distress or need public aid; 
all under the direction or with the approval of the Secre¬ 
tary of Commerce and Labor. And it shall be the duty 
of the Commissioner-General of Immigration to detail 
officers of the immigration service from time to time as 
may be necessary, in his judgment, to secure information 
as to the number of aliens detained in the penal, reforma¬ 
tory, and charitable institutions (public and private) of 
the several States and Territories, the~ / District of Colum¬ 
bia, and other territory of the United States and to in¬ 
form the officers of such institutions of the provisions of 
law in relation to the deportation of aliens who have be¬ 
come public charges: Provided , That the Commissioner- 
General of Immigration may, with the approval of the 
Secretary of Commerce and Labor, whenever in his judg¬ 
ment such action may be necessary to accomplish the pur¬ 
poses of this Act, detail immigration officers, and also 
surgeons, in accordance with the provisions of section 
seventeen, for service in foreign countries. 

Sec. 23. That the duties of the commissioners of immi¬ 
gration shall be of an administrative character, to be pre¬ 
scribed in detail by regulations prepared, under the direc¬ 
tion or with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce 
and Labor. 

Sec. 24. That immigrant inspectors and other immi¬ 
gration officers, clerks, and employees shall hereafter be 
appointed and their compensation fixed and raised or de- 


°For method of reporting, see Rule 30. 

6 For procedure for providing attendant, see Rule 37, 


15 


Deportation: 


Attendants 
for deported 
persons. 


Commissioner- 
General : 


Duties of; 


To make con¬ 
tracts for re¬ 
lief of aliens ; 


To detail of¬ 
ficers to inves¬ 
tigate public 
charges; 


To detail of¬ 
ficers abroad. 


Commission¬ 
ers : 

Duties of. 


Employees: 

Appointing 
and promoting. 




16 IMMIGRATION ACT OF FEBRUARY 20, 1907. 

creased from time to time by the Secretary of Commerce 
and Labor, upon the recommendation of the Commis¬ 
sioner-General of Immigration and in accordance with 
the provisions of the civil-service Act of January six¬ 
teenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three: Provided , 
Contract i a - That said Secretary, in the enforcement of that portion 
of this Act which excludes contract laborers, may employ, 
vision C1 for P e£ without reference to the provisions of the said civil service 
forcemeat of. Act, or to the various Acts relative to the compilation of 
the official register, such persons as he may deem advisa¬ 
ble and from time to time fix, raise, or decrease their com¬ 
pensation. He may draw from the “ immigrant fund ” 
annually fifty thousand dollars or as much thereof as 
may be necessary, to be expended for the salaries and 
expenses of persons so employed and for expenses inci¬ 
dent to such employment; and the accounting officers of 
the Treasury shall pass to the credit of the proper dis¬ 
bursing officer expenditures from said sum without item¬ 
ized account whenever the Secretary of Commerce and 
Labor certifies that an itemized account would not be for 
the best interests of the Government: Provided further , 
ers C :° mniissi0n * r lhat nothing herein contained shall be construed to 
Appointing, rlter the mode of appointing commissioners of immigra¬ 
tion at the several ports of the United States as provided 
bv the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August 
eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, or the offi¬ 
cial status of such commissioners heretofore appointed. 
omcTr™^™ 110 ” Immigration officers shall have power to administer oaths 
rower and and to take and consider evidence touching the right of 
authority of; an y a li en to enter the United States, and, where such 
action may be necessary, to make a written record of 
ing before)'per- such evidence: and any person to whom such an oath 
J ur y ; lias been administered under the provisions of this Act 

who shall knowingly or wilfully give false evidence or 
swear to any false statement in any way affecting or in 
relation to the right of any alien to admission to the 
United States shall be deemed guilty of perjury and be 
punished as provided by section fifty-three hundred and 
challenging ninety-two, United States Revised Statutes. The deci¬ 
sion of any such officer, if favorable to the admission of 
any alien, shall be subject to challenge by any other immi- 
ciaf"inquiry : spc ' gmtion officer, and such challenge shall operate to take 
netniningthe alien whose right to land is so challenged before a 
board of special inquiry for its investigation. Every 
alien who may not appear to the examining immigrant 
inspector at the port of arrival to be clearly and beyond 
a doubt entitled to land shall be detained for examina¬ 
tion in relation thereto by a board of special inquiry. 

Sec. 25. That such boards of special inquiry shall be 
appointed by the commissioner of immigration at the 
various ports of arrival as may be necessary for the 
prompt determination of all cases of immigrants de¬ 
tained at such ports under the provisions of law.® Each 


Appointing; 


a See Rule 17 for form of oatli of board member. 





IMMIGRATION ACT OF FEBRUARY 20, 1907. 


17 


board shall consist of three members, who shall be se- Boards of spe* 
lected from such of the immigrant officials in the service Clal In<,uIry * 
as the Commissioner-General of Immigration, with the 
approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, shall 
iiom time to time designate as qualified to serve on such 
boards. Provided , That at ports where there are fewer -CG ier 
than three immigrant inspectors, the Secretary of Com- °‘ a " ° r; 
merce and Labor, upon the recommendation of the Com¬ 
missioner-General of Immigration, may designate other 
United States officials for service on such boards of spe¬ 
cial inquiry. Such boards shall have authority to deter- Authority 
mine whether an alien who has been duly held shall be° f ’ 
allowed to land or shall be deported. All hearings be- Hearings 
fore boards shall be separate and apart from the public, befoie> piuate ' 
but the said boards shall keep a complete permanent 
record of their proceedings and of all such testimony as 
may be produced before them; and the decision of any 
two members of a board shall prevail, but either the alien Appeals: 


of 


or any dissenting member of the said board may appeal Manner 
through the commissioner of immigration at the port 0 f taking; 
arrival and the Commissioner-General of Immigration 
to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and the taking b a D s e ^ io ^ o] ^: 
of such appeal shall operate to stay any action in regard upon original 
to the final disposal of any alien whose case is so appealed evidence; 
until the receipt by the commissioner of immigration at 
the port of arrival of such decision which shall be ren¬ 
dered solely upon the evidence adduced before the board 
of special inquiry: Provided , That in every case where an d e 5Sion S of om- 
alien is excluded from admission into the United States, cers final; 
under any law or treaty now existing or hereafter made, 
the decision of the appropriate immigration officers, if 
adverse to the admission of such alien, shall be final, 
unless reversed on appeal to the Secretary of Commerce 
and Labor: but nothing in this section shall be construed . Not allowed 


to admit of any appeal in the case of an alien rejected as jected under 
provided for in section ten of this Act.® section 10. 

Sec. 26 . That any alien liable to be excluded because Bonds: 
likely to become a public charge or because of physical dei h anding un ' 
disability other than tuberculosis or a loathsome or dan- e in what 
gerous contagious disease may, if otherwise admissible, b a |? s P ermissi - 
nevertheless be admitted in the discretion of the Secre¬ 
tary of Commerce and Labor upon the giving of a suit¬ 
able and proper bond or undertaking, approved by said 
Secretary in such amount and containing such conditions 
as he may prescribe, to the people of the United States, 
holding the United States or any State, Territory, county, 
municipality, or district thereof harmless against such 
alien becoming a public charge. The admission of such 
alien shall be a consideration for the giving of such bond 
or undertaking. Suit may be brought thereon in the B n o g 1 n g 
name and by the proper law officers either of the United 
States Government or of any State, Territory, district, 


52520°—10 


■2 


® See Itules 5-8. . 






18 


IMMIGRATION ACT CF FEBRUARY 20, 1907. 


Suits: 

Comprom is- 
ing, etc.; 


Under for¬ 
mer acts not 
affected here¬ 
by. 


Courts, clr- 
c u i t and dis¬ 
trict : 

J urisdiction. 


Exclusive 
privileges: 


ed 


How grant- 


Proceeds 
from, to be 
paid into immi¬ 
grant fund. 


Peace offi¬ 
cers : 

Admission to 
stations. 


Commissioner- 
General : 

To make 
rules and con¬ 
tracts for in¬ 
spection on 
land bounda¬ 
ries. 


county, or municipality in which such alien becomes a 
public charge.® 

Sec. 27. That no suit or proceeding for a violation of 
the provisions of this Act shall be settled, compromised, 
or discontinued without the consent of the court in which 
it is pending, entered of record, with the reasons therefor. 

Sec. 28. That nothing contained in this Act shall be 
construed to affect any prosecution, suit, action, or pro¬ 
ceedings brought, or any act, thing, or matter, civil or 
criminal, done or existing at the time of the taking effect 
of this Act; but as to all such prosecutions, suits, actions, 
proceedings, acts, things, or matters the laws or parts 
of laws repealed or amended by this Act are hereby con¬ 
tinued in force and effect. 

Sec. 29. That the circuit and district courts of the 
United States are hereby invested with full and concur¬ 
rent jurisdiction of all causes, civil and criminal, arising 
under any of the provisions of this Act. 

Sec. 30. That all exclusive privileges of exchanging 
money, transporting passengers or baggage, or keeping 
eating houses, and all other like privileges in connection 
with any United States immigrant station, shall be dis¬ 
posed of after public competition, subject to such condi¬ 
tions and limitations as the Commissioner-General of 
Immigration, under the direction or with the approval 
of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, may prescribe: 
Provided , That no intoxicating liquors shall be sold in 
any such immigrant station; that all receipts accruing 
from the disposal of such exclusive privileges as herein 
provided shall be paid into the Treasury of the United 
States to the credit of the “ immigrant fund provided 
for in section one of this Act. 

Sec. 31. That for the preservation of the peace and in 
order that arrests may be made for crimes under the laws 
of the States and Territories of the United States where 
the various immigrant stations are located, the officers in 
charge of such stations, as occasion may require, shall 
admit therein the proper State and municipal officers 
charged with the enforcement of such laws, and for the 
purpose of this section the jurisdiction of such officers 
and of the local courts shall extend over such stations. 

Sec. 32. That the Commissioner-General of Immigra¬ 
tion, under the direction or with the approval of the Sec¬ 
retary of Commerce and Labor, shall prescribe rules for 
the entry and inspection of aliens along the .borders of 
Canada and Mexico, so as not to unnecessarily delay, 
impede, or annoy passengers in ordinary travel between 
the United States and said countries, and shall have 
power to enter into contracts with transportation lines 
for the said purposed 


® See Rule 20 us to circumstances under which accepted. 

6 For arrangement on Canadian border, see Rule 25; on Mexican 
border, Rule 27. 



19 


IMMIGRATION ACT OF FEBRUARY 20, 1907. 

Sec. 33. That for the purpose of this Act the term 1 c d 

“ United States ” as used in the title as well as in the va¬ 
rious sections of this Act shall be construed to mean the term eaning ° f 
United States and any waters, * territory, or other place 
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, except the Isthmian 
Canal Zone: Provided , That if any alien shall leave the Caual Z(>ne: 
canal zone and attempt to enter any other place under inspection of 
the jurisdiction of the United States, nothing contained lom ‘ 
in this Act shall be construed as permitting him to enter 
under any other conditions than those applicable to all 
aliens. 

Sec. 34. That the Commissioner-General of Immigra- commissioner: 
tion, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Appointment 
Labor, may appoint a commissioner of immigration to leans, 
discharge at New Orleans, Louisiana, the duties now re¬ 
quired of other commissioners of immigration at their 
respective jDosts. 

Sec. 35. That the deportation of aliens arrested within Deportation: 
the United States after entry and found to be illegally .T 0 be to 
therein, provided for in this Act, shall be to the trans- ports !° ceanic 
Atlantic or trans-Pacific ports from which said aliens 
embarked for the United States; or, if such embarkation 
Avas for foreign contiguous territory, to the foreign port 
at which said aliens embarked for such territory. 

Sec. 36. That all aliens who shall enter the United ter ^/ lie u n n s la e V Y' 
States except at the seaports thereof, or at such place or fully? un ‘ w 
places as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may. 
from time to time designate, shall be adjudged to have 
entered the country unlawfully and shall be deported as 
provided by sections twenty and twenty-one of this Act: 

Provided , That nothing contained in this section shall irj I ! orts of en " 
affect the power conferred by section thirty-two of this be desj<r 
Act upon the Commissioner-General of Immigration tonated on land 
prescribe rules for the entry and inspection of aliens borders - 
along the borders of Canada and Mexico.® 

Sec. 37. That whenever an alien shall have taken up Admission: 
his permanent residence in this country, and shall have Of diseased 
filed his declaration of intention to become a citizen, and™SiS'r eTof 
thereafter shall send for his wife, or minor children to^ lie . a J^ho has 
join him, if said wife or any of said children shall be tion*to become 
found to be affected with an}^ contagious disorder, such cltlzen - 
Avife or children shall be held, under such regulations as 
the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall prescribe, 
until it shall be determined whether the disorder will be 
easily curable, or Avhether they can be permitted to land 
Avithout danger to other persons; and they shall not be 
either admitted or deported until such facts have been 
ascertained; and if it shall be determined that the dis¬ 
order is easily curable or that they can be permitted to 
land without danger to other persons, they shall, if other¬ 
wise admissible, thereupon be admitted. 6 


a See Rule 38; also paragraph (g), Rule 21. 
b See Rule 11. 




20 


IMMIGRATION ACT OF FEBRUARY 20, 1907. 


Anarchists: " Sec. 38. That no person who disbelieves in or who is 

mitted!° be ad ' opposed to all organized government, or who is a member 
of or affiliated with any organization entertaining and 
teaching such disbelief in or opposition to all organized 
government, or who advocates or teaches the duty, neces¬ 
sity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of 
any officer or officers, either of specific individuals or of 
officers generally, of the Government of the United States 
or of any other organized government, because of his or 
their official character, shall be permitted to enter the 
United States or any territory or place subject to the 
jurisdiction thereof. This section shall be enforced by 
the Secretary of Commerce and Labor under such rules 
Penalty for an d regulations as he shall prescribe. That any person 
assisting to en- w ^ o k now j n giy a id s or aS sists any such person to enter 

the United States or any territory or place subject to the 
jurisdiction thereof, or who connives or conspires with any 
person or persons to allow, procure, or permit any such 
person to enter therein, except pursuant to such rules and 
regulations made by the Secretary of Commerce and La¬ 
bor shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or 
imprisoned for not more than five years, or both.® 
immigration Sec. 31). That a commission is hereby created, consist¬ 
ing of three Senators, to be appointed by the President 
pointed 7 ; a P of the Senate, and three members of the House of Repre¬ 
sentatives, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives, and three persons, to be appointed by 
the President of the United States. Said commission 
shall make full inquiry, examination, and investigation 
by sub-committee or otherwise into the subject of immi- 
and duties^ 1 ty g ra li° n * For the purpose of said inquiry, examination, 
and investigation, said commission is authorized to send 
for persons and papers, make all necessary travel, either 
in the United States or any foreign country, and, through 
the chairman of the commission or any member thereof to 
administer oaths and to examine witnesses and papers re¬ 
specting all matters pertaining to the subject, and to 
employ necessary clerical and other assistance. Said 
commission shall report to the Congress the conclusions 
reached by it and make such recommendations as in its 
how X paid es of ’ judgment may seem proper. Such sums of money as may 
be necessary for the said inquiry, examination, and in¬ 
vestigation are hereby appropriated and authorized to be 
paid out of the “immigrant fund” on the certificate of 
the chairman of said commission, including all expenses 
of the commissioners and a reasonable compensation, to 
be fixed by the President of the United States, for those 
members of the commission who are not members of Con- 
Coiro < rcnee t : ,olial S ress U an( ^ .^ e President of the United States is also 
President nu au th° r i ze d> in the name of the Government of the United 
thorized to ar- States, to call, in his discretion, an international confer- 
range for; ence, to assemble at such point as may be agreed upon, or 


a For method of reporting, see Rule 30. 



IMMIGRATION ACT OF FEBRUARY 20, 1907. 


21 


to send special commissioners to any foreign country, for 
the purpose of regulating by international agreement, 
subject to the advice and consent of the Senate of the 
United States, the immigration of aliens to the United 
States; of providing for the mental, moral, and physical 
examination of such aliens by American consuls or other 
officers of the United States Government at the ports of 
embarkation, or elsewhere; of securing the assistance of 
foreign governments in their own territories to prevent 
the evasion of the laws of the United States governing 
immigration to the United States; of entering into such 
international agreements as may be proper to prevent the 
immigration of aliens who, under the laws of the United 
States, are or may be excluded from entering the United 
States, and of regulating any matters pertaining to such 
immigration. 

Sec. 40. Authority is hereby given the Commissioner- 
General of Immigration to establish, under the direction 
and control of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, a 
division of information in the Bureau of Immigration 
and Naturalization; and the Secretary of Commerce and 
Labor shall provide such clerical assistance as may be 
necessary. It shall be the duty of said division to pro¬ 
mote a beneficial distribution of aliens admitted into the 
United States among the several States and Territories 
desiring immigration. Correspondence shall he had with 
the proper officials of the States and Territories, and said 
division shall gather from all available sources useful 
information*regarding the resources, products, and phys¬ 
ical characteristics of each State and Territory, and shall 
publish such information in different languages and dis¬ 
tribute the publications among all admitted aliens who 
may ask for such information at the immigrant stations 
of the United States and to such other persons as may 
desire the same. When any State or Territory appoints 
and maintains an agent or agents to represent it at any 
of the immigrant stations of the United States, such 
agents shall, under regulations prescribed by the Com¬ 
missioner-General of Immigration, subject to the approval 
of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, have access to 
aliens who have been admitted to the United States for 
the purpose of presenting, either orally or in writing, the 
special inducements offered by such State or Territory to 
aliens to settle therein. While on duty at any immigrant 
station such agents shall be subject to all the regulations 
prescribed by the Commissioner-General of Immigration, 
who, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce 
and Labor, may, for violation of any such regulations, 
deny to the agent guilty of such violation any of the 
privileges herein granted. 

Sec. 41. That nothing in this Act shall be construed to 
apply to accredited officials of foreign governments nor 
to their suites, families, or guests. 0 


Inter nations 1 

Conference: 

Purpose of. 


Information 
division: 

E s tablish- 
ment of; 


Duties and 
authority of. 


State agents: 

Appointment 
and stationing 
at ports; 

C ourtesies 
to ; 


Control of. 


Foreign offi¬ 
cials : 

Exe m p t e d 
from p r o v i- 
sions hereof. 


° See paragraph (?>), Rule 2. 




22 


IMMIGRATION ACT OF FEBRUARY 20, 1907. 


Amendatory of g EC> 42. it shall not be lawful for the master of a steam- 

LYlgation act. . . . . .... 

ship or other vessel whereon immigrant passengers, or 
passengers other than cabin passengers, have been taken • 
at any port or place in a foreign country or dominion 
(ports and places in foreign territory contiguous to the 
United States excepted) to bring such vessel and pas¬ 
sengers to any port or place in the United States unless 
the compartments, spaces, and accommodations herein¬ 
after mentioned have been provided, allotted, maintained, 
and used for and by such passengers during the entire 
voyage; that is to say, in a steamship, the compartments 
or spaces, unobstructed by cargo, stores, or goods, shall 
be of sufficient dimensions to allow for each and every 
passenger carried or brought therein eighteen clear super¬ 
ficial feet of deck allotted to his or her use, if the com¬ 
partment or space is located on the main deck or on the 
first deck next below the main deck of the vessel, and 
twenty clear superficial feet of deck allotted to his or 
her use for each passenger carried or brought therein if 
(lie compartment or space is located on the second deck 
below the main deck of the vessel: Provided ', That if the 
height between the lower passenger deck and the deck 
immediately above it is less than seven feet, or if the ap¬ 
ertures (exclusive of the side scuttles) through which 
light and air are admitted together to the lower passen¬ 
ger deck are less in size than in the proportion of three 
square feet to every one hundred superficial feet of that 
deck, the ship shall not carry a greater number of passen¬ 
gers on that deck than in the proportion of one passen¬ 
ger to every thirty clear superficial feet thereof. It shall 
not be lawful to carry or bring passengers on any deck 
other than the decks above mentioned. And in sailing 
vessels such passengers shall be carried or brought only 
on the deck (not being an orlop deck) that is next below 
the main deck of the vessel, or in a poop or deck house 
constructed on the main deck; and the compartment or 
space, unobstructed by cargo, stores, or goods, shall be of 
sufficient dimensions to allow one hundred and ten cubic 
feet for each and every passenger brought therein. And 
such passenger shall not be carried or brought in any be¬ 
tween decks, nor in any compartment, space, poop, or 
deck house, the height of which from deck to deck is less 
than six feet. In computing the number of such pas¬ 
sengers carried or brought in any vessel, children under 
one year of age shall not be included, and two children 
between one and eight years of age shall be counted as one 
passenger; and any person brought in any such vessel 
who shall have been, during the voyage, taken from any 
other vessel wrecked or in distress on the high seas, or 
have been picked up at sea from any boat, raft, or other¬ 
wise, shall not be included in such computation. The 
master of a vessel coming to a port or place in the United 
States in violation of either of the provisions of this sec¬ 
tion shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and if the 


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IMMIGRATION ACT CF FEBRUARY 20, 1907. 

number of passengers other than cabin passengers carried 
or brought in the vessel, or in any compartment, space, 
poop, or deck house thereof, is greater than the number 
allowed to be carried or brought therein, respectively, as 
hereinbefore prescribed, the said master shall be fined 
fifty dollars for each and every passenger in excess of the 
proper number, and may also be imprisoned not exceed¬ 
ing six months. 

This section shall take effect on January first, nineteen 
hundred and nine. 

Sec. 43. That the Act of March third, nineteen hun¬ 
dred and three, being an Act to regulate the immigration 
of aliens into the United States, except section thirty- 
four thereof, and the Act of March twenty-second, nine¬ 
teen hundred and four, being an Act to extend the exemp¬ 
tion from head tax to citizens of Newfoundland enter¬ 
ing the United States, and all Acts and parts of Acts 
inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed: Provided ’, 
That this Act shall not be construed to repeal, alter, or 
amend existing laws relating to the immigration or ex¬ 
clusion of Chinese persons or persons of Chinese descent, 
nor to repeal, alter, or amend section six, chapter four 
hundred and fifty-three, third session Fifty-eighth Con¬ 
gress, approved February sixth, nineteen hundred and 
five, or, prior to January first, nineteen hundred and nine, 
section one of the Act approved August second, eighteen 
hundred and eighty-two, entitled “An Act to regulate 
the carriage of passengers by sea.” 

Sec. 44. That this Act shall take effect and be enforced 
from and after July first, nineteen hundred and seven: 
Provided , however , That section thirty-nine of this Act 
and the last proviso of section one shall take effect upon 
the passage of this Act and section forty-two on January 
first, nineteen hundred and nine. 

Approved February 20, 1907. (34 Stat., pt. 1, p. 898.) 


EXTRACT FROM THE SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION 
ACT APPROVED MARCH 4, 1909.® 

“ In all, one million two hundred and sixty-six thou¬ 
sand seven hundred and fifty dollars, which shall include 
the amount necessary for the medical inspection of aliens , 
o.s required by section seventeen of the Act of Congress 
approved February twentieth , nineteen hundred and 
seven , and the provision of said section of said Act re¬ 
quiring the reimbursement by the immigration fund for 
said expenses is hereby repealed .” 


a Under caption “ Public Health and Marine Hospital Service ” 
(35 Stat, 969). 


Amendatory of 
navigation act. 


Repealing 

clause: 


Exceptions. 


When effect¬ 
ive. 




24 IMMIGRATION ACT OF FEBRUARY 20, 1907. 

ACT APPROVED MARCH 4, 1909. 

AN ACT relative to outward alien manifests on certain vessels. 0 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa¬ 
tives of the United States of America in Congress assem¬ 
bled, That until the provisions of section twelve of the 
immigration Act of February twentieth, nineteen hun¬ 
dred and seven, relating to outward alien manifests, shall 
be made applicable to passengers going out of the United 
States to Canada by land carriage, said provisions shall 
not apply to passengers going by vessels employed exclu¬ 
sively in the trade between the ports of the United States 
and the Dominion of Canada and the Republic of Mexico. 

Approved, March 4, 1909. 

° 35 Stat., 10G0. 



IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS. 


CONTENTS. 


Rules relating to head tax : 

1. Collection of head tax_ 

2. Exemptions from head tax_ 

3. Accounting for head tax and other receipts_ 

Rules relating to admission or exclusion : 

4. Application of Immigration Act_ 

5. Examination of aliens_±_ 

6. Appeals_ 

7. Appeals, procedure_ 

8. Appeals, procedure_ 

9. Medical examination_ 

10. Landing for hospital treatment_ 

11. Detention of sick wives or children_ 

12. Detention of attendants for helpless aliens__ 

13. Detention and treatment of aliens, procedure and expense of_ 

14. Holding of aliens as witnesses_ 

15. Assistance to admitted aliens_ 

1G. Charges for care and maintenance_ 

17. Oath of board of special inquiry_ 

18. Appearance of attorneys_ 

19. Notice of sailings_ 

20. Admissions under bond_ 

21. Japanese and Korean laborers_ 

22. Seamen _ 

23. Stowaways_ 

24. Ports of entry, Canada_:_ 

25. Admission and exclusion, Canadian ports_ 

2G. Ports of entry, Mexico_ 

27. Admission and exclusion, Mexico_ 

28. Fine, bringing of diseased aliens_ 

29. Fine, failure to deliver-manifests_ 

30. Fines, reporting of_ 

Rules relating to deportation : 

31. Deportation, aliens subject to_ 

32. Public charges from prior causes_ 

33. Public charges, medical certificate_ 

34. Deportation, application for warrant_ 

35. Deportation, procedure_ 

3G. Deportation, cost of maintenance_ 

37. Deportation, procedure in cases of insane or diseased aliens re¬ 

quiring special care and attention_ 

38. Deportation, where to_ 

39. Deportation by consent_ 

Rules relating to transit : 

40. Aliens in transit_ 

41. Aliens in transit, head tax for_ 

Miscellaneous rules: 

42. Cattlemen_ 

43. Administration of oaths- 

44. Posting of immigration acts- 

45. Official communications- 

46. Telegraphing-- 

47. Uniforms_ 

48. Districts _ 

49. Manifest grouping- 

50. Immigration via Porto Rico and Hawaii- 


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Note: Meaning 
of terms em¬ 
ployed. 


Department of Commerce and Labor, 
Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization. 

Note.— Wherever, in the following rules, the expres¬ 
sion “ Immigration Act ” is used, it shall be understood 
to refer to the act entitled “An act to regulate the immi¬ 
gration of aliens into the United States,’' approved Feb¬ 
ruary 20, 1907; and wherever a numbered section is men¬ 
tioned it shall be understood to refer to the section of 
that number in said act, unless explicitly stated to the 
contrary. 

The following rules do not apply to aliens seeking ad¬ 
mission to the Philippine Islands, the administration of 
n oT applicable the immigration laws and the collection of head tax 
to- therein having been vested in the officers of the gen¬ 

eral government of those islands by section G of the act 
approved February 6, 1905. 


Philippine Is 
lands: 

Regulations 


RULES RELATING TO HEAD TAX. 


Head tax: Rule 1. Collection of head tax. — The head tax imposed 

Collection of ; by section 1 of the Immigration Act is to be levied and 
collected in respect of all aliens entering the United 
States, except such as are described in Pule 2 hereof, 
of C to r co?i C ecto 0 r° Upon the arrival of any aliens at any seaport of the 
’United States, the immigration officer in charge shall 
certify to the collector of customs the number of aliens 
on account of whom the tax is payable and the name of 
the person required to pay the same. Upon receipt of 
such certificate, the collector of customs shall forthwith 
collect a tax of four dollars for each alien so certified. 

Deposit of; r phe tax collected on account of aliens, who are not per¬ 
mitted to land, but are held for examination by a board 
^Refundment () f special inquiry, and the tax collected on account of 
aliens permitted to enter for the purpose of passing in 
transit through the United States, shall be held as a spe¬ 
cial deposit, to be refunded, in the one case, when an alien 
detained for examination has been excluded, and in the 
other, when an alien proceeding in transit through the 
United States has left the country. The collections so 


RULES RELATING TO HEAD TAX. 


27 


made shall no longer be held on special deposit, but shall 
be accounted for in the regular manner, in the case of 
aliens detained for examination, so soon as it shall appear 
that they are admitted, and, in the case of aliens entering 
for the purpose of transit, if, at the expiration of sixty 
days from time of entry, it is not shown that they have 
passed out of the country. 

The head tax payable on account of aliens entering the 
United States from foreign contiguous territory shall be 
levied and collected, at Mexican border ports, according 
to the provisions of Rule 27 hereof, and at Canadian bor¬ 
der ports according to the terms of an agreement between 
the Commissioner-General of Immigration and certain 
transportation companies, embodied in Rules 24 and 25 
hereof. 

Rule 2. Exemptions from head tax .—The head tax 
shall not be levied in respect of the folloAving aliens: 

(a) Aliens who do not enter the United States because 
excluded from admission thereto by the Immigration Act. 
(Secs. 1 and 2.) 

(b) Diplomatic and consular officers and other accred¬ 
ited officials of foreign governments, their suites, families, 
and guests coming to the United States to reside or to 
pass through in transit. (Sec. 41.) 

(c) Head tax shall not be collected on account of aliens 
entering the United States from Canada, Newfoundland, 
Cuba, or Mexico "whose legal domicile or bona fide resi¬ 
dence was in one of the countries specified for at least one 
year immediately preceding such entrance if it merely 
appears that the continuity of their physical presence at 
their place of residence or domicile was broken by one or 
more transient and temporary departures therefrom; nor 
shall head tax be collected on account of such aliens if 
it merely appears that, instead of entering the United 
States from Canada, Newfoundland, Cuba or Mexico 
directly, they come by way of some other foreign country 
in which they had made a merely temporary or transient 
sojourn. 

(d ) Head tax shall not be collected on account of aliens 
reentering the United States from Canada, Newfound¬ 
land, Cuba, or Mexico who are citizens thereof but who 
have acquired a legal domicile or bona fide residence in 
the United States, and who are returning from a visit 
to one of the said countries, notwithstanding that the 
period of a full year has not intervened between the date 
of their departure fronr and the date of their return to 
the United States. 

( e ) Aliens, otherwise admissible, who are residents of 
any possession of the United States, provided at the time 
of admission to such possession head tax was paid on 
their account. (Sec. 1.) 

(/) Aliens who enter the United States only for the 
purpose of transit to foreign destinations. Collections 
made in respect of such aliens will be held on special de- 


Head tax: 


Collection of, 
on Mexican and 
Canadian bor¬ 
ders ; 


Exemptions 
from — 

Excluded 
aliens ; 


Diplo matic 
officers : 


Residents 
Canada, New¬ 
foundland, 
Cuba, and 
Mexico ; 


Residents of 
U. S. tempora- 
r i 1 y visiting 
Canada, New¬ 
foundland, 
Cuba, or Mex¬ 
ico ; 


Residents 
insular posses¬ 
sions ; 


Transits ; 


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RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


Head tax: posit and will be refunded pursuant to Rules 1 and 41. 

Ex eruptions ^ x 1 

from — (bee. 1.) 

( g ) Aliens who have been lawfully admitted to the 


Aliens in 
continuous 
journey; 


United States and who later shall go in transit from one 
part* of the United States to another through foreign con¬ 
tiguous territory. Satisfactory evidence of such previous 
lawful admission and of previous payment of head tax 
shall be required in the case of aliens on whose behalf 
this exemption is claimed, as in paragraphs ( c) and ( d ) 
of this rule. Personal knowledge on the part of an immi¬ 
gration officer, or a written statement from such an officer 
based on an examination of official records certifying to 
the fact of previous entry and payment of tax, will be 
sufficient. As evidence of the continuity of the transit, 
production of a dated passenger ticket, where such exists, 
may be required. (Sec. 1.) 

( u^m p p rts of W Aliens arriving in Guam, Porto Rico, or Hawaii; 
Rico, ’and Ha°.but if any such alien, not having become a citizen of the 
waiL United States, shall later arrive at any port or place of 

the United States on the North American Continent the 
provisions for the levy and collection of head tax shall 
apply. (Sec. 1.) 

immigrant Rule 3. Accounting for head tax and other receipts .— 
All moneys collected on account of head tax, as well as 
f r A PCPi U t t fS?all moneys collected for rentals of exclusive privileges 
° r ’at United States immigrant stations and all moneys col¬ 
lected as fines for violations of the immigration laws 
(whether imposed by the Department or the courts), shall 
be deposited to the credit of the Treasurer of the United 
States on account of miscellaneous receipts, with an 
assistant treasurer of the United States, or national-bank 
depositary, in the same manner as other miscellaneous col¬ 
lections are deposited. Separate accounts of the receipts 
and expenditures of money under the act shall be ren¬ 
dered monthly to the Secretary of the Treasury through 
the Department of Commerce and Labor on forms to be 
furnished by the Government for the purpose. 


fund: 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 

Act™ m,grat, ° 11 Application of Immigration Act .—The pro¬ 

visions of the Immigration Act apply to all aliens seek- 
piicabi? om ap * ing to enter the United States, except accredited officials 
of foreign governments, their suites, families, and guests. 
The act also prescribes the conditions of their admission 
to or exclusion from the United States, or any waters, 
territory, or other place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, 
except the Isthmian Canal Zone. The act becomes effect¬ 
ive when such aliens arrive from any foreign country, or 
other place without the jurisdiction of the United States, 
or from the Canal Zone. The provisions of the Immi¬ 
gration Act do not apply to aliens who have once been 
duly admitted to the United States or any waters, terri¬ 
tory, or other place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


29 


passing back and forth between the insular possessions 
and the continental territories of the United States, ex¬ 
cept aliens coming from the Canal Zone, and except 
Japanese or Korean laborers coming from Hawaii, with 
passports limited to Hawaii, Mexico, or Canada. The 
admission of aliens coming from the Canal Zone is gov¬ 
erned by the regulations applicable to aliens generally; 
the admission of Japanese or Korean laborers to the con¬ 
tinental territory of the United States is governed by the 
provisions of the Executive order of the President em¬ 
bodied in Pule 21 hereof. 


Rule o. Examination of aliens .—No alien who falls 
within one of the classes of persons enumerated and de¬ 
fined in section 2 of the Immigration Act or in the Exec¬ 
utive order embraced in Rule 21 hereof shall be admitted 
to the United States, nor (with the exception of the Isth¬ 
mian Canal Zone) to any waters, territory, or other place 
subject to the jurisdiction thereof. Every alien seeking 
to enter the United States, as thus defined, who does not 
fall within any of the classes so enumerated, shall be 
admitted. 

Children under sixteen years of age, unaccompanied by 
one or both of their parents, shall not be permitted to 
enter the United States, if it appears, or the circum¬ 
stances indicate, that they are to be placed in forced or 
“ padrone ” servitude or in any employment unsuited to 
their years. 

Every alien arriving at a port of the United States shall 
be promptly examined, as by law provided, either on ship¬ 
board or at some other place designated for that purpose. 
Every alien who may appear to the examining immigrant 
inspector to be clearly and beyond doubt entitled to land 
shall be at once admitted; every alien who may not ap¬ 
pear to be clearly and beyond a doubt entitled to land 
shall be detained for examination by a board of special 
inquiry, which examination shall be promptly conducted 
separate and apart from the public, and, upon the con¬ 
clusion thereof, the alien shall be either immediately 
landed or ordered excluded and returned to the country 
whence he came. If an appeal lies, the alien shall be in¬ 
formed of his right thereto, and the fact that he has been 
so informed shall be entered of record in the minutes of 
the board’s proceedings. If the alien elects to appeal, he 
must, to enable officers to comply with the provisions of 
section 19, file notice of such appeal not less than forty- 
eight hours prior to the sailing of the first vessel by which 
his return may be effected, unless such sailing occurs less 
than forty-eight hours after the order of deportation is 
made. But in no event shall an appeal be considered 
after an alien has, in consequence of an adverse decision 
of a board of special inquiry, been transferred from an 
immigrant station to be excluded, unless such transfer 
has been made to prevent congestion, or danger of conta¬ 
gion, as provided by Rule 8 hereof. 


Examination: 

Who exclud¬ 
able upon ; 


Children un¬ 
der 16 ; 


Primary in¬ 
spection ; 


Board special 
inquiry inspec¬ 
tion. 


Appeals: 

N o t i fying 
alien of right 
to ; 

Filing notice 
of; 


30 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


Appeals: jf an a p en? rejected on account of disability or disease, 

steamship com°- or because insane or mentally defective, is in such phys- 
pany; ical or mental condition as to require special care and 

attention during the ocean voyage and land trip of de¬ 
portation, the commissioner or inspector in charge shall, 
when delivering such rejected alien into the custody of 
the master or first or second officer of the vessel by which 
deportation is to be effected, furnish such officer with a 
statement of particulars (Form No. 507) and accom¬ 
panying receipt and returns, for use in accordance with 
the provisions of Rule 37 hereof, all applicable require¬ 
ments of which rule shall be observed. In the cases 
of aliens rejected by boards of special inquiry, or 
by the Department on appeal, the commissioner of 
immigration or inspector in charge shall, as promptly 
as circumstances permit, notify the steamship line by a 
vessel of which the alien is to be deported, furnishing full 
particulars as to the cause of rejection, and, if the alien 
is diseased, disabled, or insane, a statement of the alien’s 
condition. 

miss!tae; per ' Rule 6 . Appeals. — Except as specified in this rule, an 
appeal may be taken by the alien himself or by a dissent¬ 
ing member of the board from any decision of a board of 
special inquiry which determines whether an alien shall 
e?m1ssibi n °*k e admitted or excluded. No appeal is permissible when 
116031186’ deci-the decision of the board rejecting an alien is based upon 

on° medicare?- a certificate of the examining medical officer which 
tificate ; shows— 

(a) That the alien is afflicted with tuberculosis or 
with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; 

(b) That the alien is an idiot, an imbecile, an epileptic, 
or is insane or feeble-minded; 

(c) That the alien has been insane within five years 
previously, or has had two or more attacks of insanity at 
any time previously; 

(d) ' That the alien has any mental defect which in the 
board’s opinion may affect his ability to earn a living or 
render him likely to become a public charge ; 

(e) ^ That the alien has any physical defect which in the 
board’s opinion may affect iiis ability to earn a living or 
render him likely to become a public charge; but aliens 
coming within this class may nevertheless be admitted, 
in the discretion of the Secretary, as provided in Rule 20 
hereof. 

bo?rd Cre of° n im Boards special inquiry in reaching decisions “ based 
n ui r y under upon the certificate of the examining medical officer” are 
to be governed by the following considerations: It is 
“ the decision of the board of special inquiry ” which is 
made unappealable in certain cases by section 10, and not 
“ the certificate of the examining medical officer.” In 
arriving at a decision, therefore, the board is required to 
exercise its own discretion in determining whether or nert 
it will “ base ” the same upon the certificate of the exam¬ 
ining medical officer. Where the decision of the board is 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


31 


expressly u based ” upon medical certificates of the char- Appoals: 
acter specified by section 10, no appeal is allowed by the 
act. But whether the board will so u base ” its decision 
will naturally depend upon the circumstances of the'case. 

Thus— 


"W hen the medical certificate shows that an alien is 
affected with tuberculosis or with a loathsome or dan¬ 
gerous contagious disease, or when it shows that an alien 
is an idiot, an imbecile, or an epileptic, or is insane or 
feeble-minded, the board of special inquiry is virtually 
forced to “ base ” its decision upon that certificate, the 
reason being that whether or not an alien is so affected is 
purely a matter of medical science and not such a matter 
as to which a board of laymen can be expected to reach 
an intelligent conclusion. 


Circum¬ 
stances deter¬ 
mining whether 
board’s deci¬ 
sion shall be 
based on med¬ 
ical certificate, 
and whether 
case shall be 
decided by 
board subject 
to appeal or 
shall be con¬ 
sidered an ap¬ 
plication for 
bond. 


Where the medical certificate states that an alien is 
affected with any mental defect or physical defect (other 
than those just named), either of which defects is of a 
nature that might affect the ability of the alien to earn a 
living or make him likely to become a public charge, or 
when the medical certificate states that the alien has been 
insane within five years previously, or has had two or 
more attacks of insanity at any time previously, the ques¬ 
tion to be determined is a practical one quite as much as 
a medical one, and boards of special inquiry should not 
only receive and carefully consider the certificate of the 
medical officer, but should likewise consider all the facts 
and surrounding circumstances of the case, and from the 
case as a whole reach their own conclusion as to whether 
the defect is of a nature which may, considering all the 
circumstances of the case, affect his ability to earn a 
living or render him likely to become a public charge, or 
whether the alien has actually been afflicted in the past. 

If the defect for which certified is 'physical , not mental , 
and, on consideration of the whole case, the board’s de¬ 
cision is that such physical defect is one which may affect 
his ability to earn a living or render him likely to become 
a public charge, and the alien is otherwise admissible, he Application 
should be given an opportunity to make application for for landing un¬ 
landing under bond in accordance with Buie 20. der b °and 

If, on the other hand, the board’s conclusion is that the Api)eals: 
defect is not of such a nature as to affect the ability of the 
alien to earn a living or render him likely to become a 
public charge, considering all the facts surrounding his 
case, and that the alien is otherwise admissible, the board 
should land the alien unconditionally; or, if the board’s 
. conclusion is that the alien should be rejected, not solely 
because of the certificate but on the basis of all the facts 
and circumstances, the alien should be rejected and ad¬ 
vised of his right to appeal in the usual manner. 

To summarize so much of the foregoing as relates to . Distinction 
the distinction between appeals and applications for ad- tween : 
mission under bond: 


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EULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


Appeals: 


Notice of, to 
ect as stay of 
deportation ; 


Evidence 
considered on; 


Granting ad¬ 
ditional time 
for ; 


Making rec¬ 
ord of; 


Notifying 
steamship o f 
dismissal of. 


Medical exam¬ 
ination: 

What sur¬ 
geons to con¬ 
duct ; 


When a board concludes that an alien is “ liable to be 
excluded because likely to become a public charge or be¬ 
cause of physical disability other than tuberculosis or a 
loathsome or dangerous contagious disease f ” and such con¬ 
clusion is not based solely upon the medical certificate , 
the board should render a decision , from which decision 
the alien has the right of appeal. 

But when the board reaches such conclusion upon the 
basis solely of the medical certificate , no decision should 
be rendered , but the alien should be given an opportunity 
to apply for admission under bond in accordance with 
Ride 20. 

Rule 7. Appeals , procedure. —Notice of appeal shall 
act as a stay of all proceedings until a final decision is 
rendered by the Secretary; and, within forty-eight hours 
after the filing of such notice, the complete record of the 
case shall be forwarded to the Commissioner-General of 
Immigration by the immigration officer in charge at the 
port of arrival, accompanied b}^ his views thereon in 
writing; but on such appeal of any case to the Secretary 
no evidence will be considered which has not already been 
passed upon in said case by a board of special inquiry at 
the original hearing, or upon a rehearing if so ordered. 
(See sec. 25.) If, to prevent a miscarriage of justice, 
additional time is granted to the friends or counsel of an 
appealing alien, the said immigration officer may require 
the deposit of a sum of money sufficient to defray the 
cost of maintaining appellant during the additional time 
thus allowed. 

Rule 8. Appeals , procedure. —The commissioner of im¬ 
migration or the immigration officer in charge at the 
port of landing shall enter of record the name of every 
alien found upon examination to be within any of the 
prohibited classes, with a statement of the decision in 
each case; and if such decision be appealed from immedi¬ 
ately upon the receipt from the Department of its con¬ 
clusions thereupon the alien shall be landed or deported 
in accordance with such conclusion. If a landing is re¬ 
fused on appeal, the master, agent, consignee, or owner of 
the vessel by which the said alien arrived shall be notified 
by the commissioner or officer in charge, and advised that 
the alien will lie placed aboard the vessel of the line in¬ 
volved next sailing, for deportation. The commissioner 
or officer in charge at a port of entry where a detention 
station is located may, immediately upon exclusion, place 
debarred aliens on board the vessel by which they are to 
be deported, if in his judgment such action is necessary 
to prevent congestion or danger of contagion in such sta¬ 
tion. (See Rule 5.) 

Rule 9. Medical examination. —Officers of the United 
States Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service (or, if 
such officers are not available, civil surgeons of not less 
than four years’ professional experience) are required by 
section 17 of the Immigration Act to make a phj^sical and 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


33 


Contagiou s 
diseases ; 


mental examination of all arriving aliens, and to certify ina ® e 0 n® al exam ‘ 
for the information of immigration officers any and all 
physical and mental defects or diseases observed by them. 

Every officer of such Service detailed for this duty shall, 
subject to the instructions of the Surgeon-General of the 
Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, be under the 
direction of the immigration officer in charge of the port 
to which he may be detailed. 

The certificate of the medical officer shall state the phys- certificates 
ical or mental detect or disease observed, specifying the tents of— 
name by which it is known in common speech as well as 
the name by which it is known in medicine; and the 
certificate shall also state: 

(a) Where an alien is certified as having been insane in I “ s ^ rg "; ith ' 
within five years previous, or as having had two or more 

attacks of insanity at any time previously, how the pre¬ 
vious existence of the malady has been ascertained 
(sec. 2) ; 

(b) Where an alien is certified as being afflicted with a 
loathsome or dangerous contagious disease, that the dis¬ 
ease named is in fact a loathsome or dangerous contagious 
disease, and is or is not of a quarantinable nature (secs. 

2 > 19 ); 

(c) Where an alien is certified as having a mental or Mental and 
physical defect of a nature which may affect his ability fects ; S 1 ° a e 
to earn a living, or as being likely to become a public 

charge by reason of any mental or physical disability, the 
bearing of such mental or physical shortcoming upon the 
customary occupation of the alien and upon his general 
capacity for useful employment, whether such defect is of 
a temporary or permanent nature, and whether the defi¬ 
ciency of the alien has been corrected by artificial or edu¬ 
cational means (secs. 2, 10, 26) ; 

(cl) Where an alien is certified for permission to land w h hos- 
for medical treatment in any hospital of the United ment required; 
States, or where it is certified that the health or safety of 
an insane alien would be unduly imperiled by immediate 
deportation, that the alien is not suffering from tubercu¬ 
losis or from a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease 
of a nonquarantinable nature, and the probable duration 
of the alien’s detention in hospital, asylum, or elsewhere 
(sec. 19); 

(e) Where an alien is certified as being helpless from ^vor heipiess- 
sickness, mental or physical disability,or infancy,whether 
such alien requires the protection or guardianship of an 
attendant (secs. 11, 21) ; 

(/) Where the wife or minor children of an alien who ml w n 1 ; r e ® h a 1 n 1 a . 
has declared his intention to become a citizen are certified dren; 
as being affected with any contagious disorder, whether 
such disorder is a loathsome or a dangerous one, the prob¬ 
able length of time needed to determine whether the dis¬ 
order will be easily curable, and whether they can be 
permitted to land without danger to other persons (sec. 

37) ; and 

52520°—10- 


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34 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


Medical exam¬ 
ination : 

Certificates 
covering, con¬ 
tents of — 

Persons af¬ 
flicted at time 
foreign embar¬ 
kation. 


Landing for 
hospital treat¬ 
ment : 

Conditions 
under which 
permissible; 


Evidence re¬ 
quired, in ur¬ 
gent cases— 


—in other 
cases; 


By “express 
permission” of 
Secretary : 


Evidence re¬ 
quired ; 


(g) Where an alien is certified as being an idiot, imbe¬ 
cile, epileptic, or afflicted with tuberculosis or with a 
loathsome or dangerous contagious disease, whether the 
alien was so afflicted at the time of foreign embarkation, 
whether the existence of the disease or disability might 
have been detected by means of a competent medical ex¬ 
amination at such time, how the previous condition of the 
alien has been ascertained, and the ground for believing 
that it might have been detected by a competent exam¬ 
ination. 

Rule 10. Landing for hospital treatment .— (a) Where 
an alien has been excluded by decision of a board of 
special inquiry and the order for the return of the alien 
has been suspended, or where an alien is held, pending the 
determination of his case, by order of court, to await 
transportation, on account of his health, because his testi¬ 
mony is required in the prosecution of offenders against 
the act, or for some other cause, an application may be 
made, accompanied by the certificate of the medical ex¬ 
aminer, to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor for per¬ 
mission to allow the landing of the alien for hospital 
treatment or other appropriate care or attention. 

(h) Such an application will be granted as of course 
where it is certified by the medical examiner that the 
health or safety of an insane alien would be unduly imper¬ 
iled by immediate deportation, or where it is manifest 
to the commissioner of immigration, or the immigration 
officer in charge, that the condition of the alien requires 
immediate hospital treatment. In such cases, pending 
the decision of the Secretary, hospital treatment or other 
appropriate care or attention shall be immediately 
afforded. 

( c) In all other cases the application will not be granted 
unless it clearly appears from the report of the commis¬ 
sioner of immigration, or the immigration officer in 
charge, or from other evidence accompanying the appli¬ 
cation, that such a course is necessary to meet the ends of 
justice and humanity. 

( d) Applications to land for medical treatment in a 
hospital of the United States by the “ express permis¬ 
sion ” of the Secretary, made by or on behalf of aliens 
certified to be suffering from tuberculosis or from a loath¬ 
some or dangerous contagious disease (sec. 19), must be 
accompanied by a certificate of a Public Health and 
Marine-Hospital surgeon showing the exact character 
and extent of the malady with which the alien is suffering 
and estimating the duration of the treatment that will 
be required to effect a cure. The alien making the appli¬ 
cation, or the person making it in his behalf, shall deposit 
with the commissioner of immigration, or inspector in 
charge, a sum of money sufficient to cover the cost of 
affording the alien treatment for the period of time esti¬ 
mated in the above-mentioned certificate (and give satis¬ 
factory assurances that further deposit will be remitted 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


35 


if needed), if such estimated period does not exceed sixty 
days; and, in the event the estimate is for more than said 
time, a deposit shall be made sufficient to cover treatment 
for sixty days, and satisfactory assurances given that at 
least fifteen days prior to the expiration of said period a 
further deposit will be made sufficient to cover cost of 
treatment for thirty days additional and a remittance of 
a similar amount fifteen days prior to the expiration of 
the period covered by this deposit, and so on until the 
alien is cured and allowed to proceed, or the case other¬ 
wise disposed of. The said alien, or person interested in 
his behalf, shall also be advised that failure in any in¬ 
stance to comply with this requirement will result in 
deportation by the next sailing of the line involved. 
There shall also be deposited by the alien, or by the per¬ 
son making the application in his behalf, a sum of money 
(or transportation ticket and money) sufficient to defray 
the expense of forwarding the alien, if and when event¬ 
ually cured, to his destination within the United States; 
and, in the event that such alien is a person who, by rea¬ 
son of infancy or other cause, will require the care of an 
attendant while traveling, such deposit shall be sufficient 
to also cover the expense of detailing an employee of the 
Immigration Service to accompany the alien to his desti¬ 
nation, and the cost of the return of such employee to his 
or her station, or satisfactory assurances must be given 
that such an attendant will be furnished by the person 
making the application. The certificate above mentioned 
shall be forwarded to the Bureau of Immigration and 
Naturalization, accompanied by a report of the circum¬ 
stances of the case, sufficiently detailed to enable the De¬ 
partment to determine whether there are present any 
peculiar conditions that render the exercise of its author¬ 
ity necessary to meet the ends of justice and humanity. 
Such report shall also show whether the deposits and 
assurances hereinbefore mentioned have been made and 
given, describing the character of the assurances. If the 
application is granted by the Department the alien will be 
permitted to enter a hospital for treatment. Should such 
treatment extend over a period exceeding sixty days and 
the deposit to cover any succeeding thirty-day period not 
be promptly forthcoming as above required, the fact of 
such failure shall be immediately reported to the Depart¬ 
ment in order that instructions for the deportation of the 
alien may issue. When any alien so detained is cured and 
allowed to proceed to destination, such amount as remains 
unexpended of the deposit or deposits made on his ac¬ 
count shall be returned to the depositor and his receipt 
taken therefor. 

( e ) The landing or detention of an alien for the pur¬ 
pose contemplated by this rule shall not be construed in 
any manner to alter the status of the alien with reference 
to his right to enter or remain in the United States. 
(Sec. 19.) 


Landing for 
hospital treat¬ 
ment : 

By “express 
permission” of 
Secretary ; 

Deposits re¬ 
quired— money 
and transpor¬ 
tation ; 


Procedure re- 
garding alien 
and deposits ; 


Not admis 
sion. 


36 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


Wives and 
children of dom¬ 
iciled aliens: 

Landing of, 
for treatment; 


Evidence 

quired. 


re- 


Helpless 
aliens: 

Guardian en 
voyage for, 
when deported. 


Disabled 
aliens: 

Hospital 
treatment of; 


Rule 11. Detention of sick wives or children. —Where, 
upon the arrival of the wife or minor child or children 
sent for by an alien who has declared his intention to be¬ 
come a citizen, or of the minor child or children of a 
naturalized citizen, born abroad prior to his naturaliza¬ 
tion, such wife, child, or children are found to be afflicted 
with a contagious disorder and it can not be immediately 
determined whether the disorder will be easily curable, 
they shall be held until a determination can be had, and 
an application may be made, accompanied by the certifi¬ 
cate of the medical examiner, to the Secretary of Com¬ 
merce and Labor for permission to allow the landing of 
such wife or child for hospital treatment or other ap¬ 
propriate care or attention. In such cases, where neces¬ 
sary, pending the decision of the Secretary, hospital treat¬ 
ment or other appropriate care or attention shall be 
immediately afforded. This application or the accom¬ 
panying papers must clearly show that the husband or 
father has actually taken up his permanent residence in 
this country and has actually filed his declaration of in¬ 
tention to become a citizen of the United States, or has 
actually been naturalized, and that he is in fact the bus- 
band or father of the alien in question. Nothing con¬ 
tained herein shall be taken as in any manner affecting 
the liability of transportation companies under section 9, 
or as altering the status of the aliens concerned with ref¬ 
erence to their admission or exclusion. (See sec. 37, and 
Rules 10 and 12.) 

Rule 12. Detention of attendants for helpless aliens .— 
Where it is found that an alien is helpless from sickness, 
mental or physical disability, or infancy, and that, if 
excluded, he will require the protection and guardian¬ 
ship of an attendant upon his return to the country 
whence he came, if the alien arrives accompanied by 
others, not more than one of such accompanying aliens 
(preferably a natural guardian or relative) shall be de¬ 
tained to act if, in the judgment of the commissioner of 
immigration or the immigration officer in charge, such 
detention is necessary. Such detention shall not be 
deemed necessary, but is permissible, in quarantinable 
cases. If the alien arrives unaccompanied, a suitable 
person shall be employed for the purpose. The ex¬ 
pense incident to such detention or employment and to the 
transportation involved shall be borne by the transporta¬ 
tion company. (Secs. 11, 19, 21.) 

Rule 13. Detention and treatment of aliens , procedure 
and expense of .— (a) A disabled alien, within the pur¬ 
view of Rules 10, 11, and 12 hereof, may be afforded the 
required medical treatment on board ship or in the deten¬ 
tion quarters, or may be removed to a suitable hospital 
for treatment, as in his discretion the commissioner of 
immigration or inspector in charge at the port may decide 
is required by existing circumstances and the condition of 
the alien s health as reported upon by the surgeon charged 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


37 


with the medical examination of aliens at such port. If .d « 1,10,1 
such an alien is removed to a hospital he shall not be re- alie " s! 
garded as in any sense landed, and the cost of his mainte¬ 
nance and care there must be borne in one of the several 
ways hereinafter specified, as the circumstances of the 
case may require. 

(b) If in the judgment of the commissioner or in- Attendants 
spector in charge, based upon the expressed opinion of the for; 
medical examiner, it is necessary as a measure of human¬ 
ity or for the proper care of an alien removed to hospital 

to also place in the hospital a suitable attendant or some 
person who is dependent upon the disabled alien, or the 
reverse, the cost of the detention in hospital of such addi¬ 
tional person must be borne in the same manner as the 
cost of treating the disabled alien. 

(c) The expenses involved in detaining or treating. Expenses of 
aliens shall be borne as follows: (1) By the Govern- off pi a carc 
merit. —In cases of ( aa ) Those held as witnesses under 

section 10 and Rule 14; ( bb) Insane aliens whose health or 
safety would be unduly imperiled by immediate deporta¬ 
tion (sec. 10) ; (cc) Wives and minor children of aliens 
who have declared intention, or minor children of natural¬ 
ized citizens born abroad prior to naturalization of parent 
(sec. 37 and Rule 11; Op. Compt.„Jan. 15, 1008). (2) 

By the alien. —Those treated by “ express permission ” of 
the Secretary, under section 10, although afflicted with 
tuberculosis or a loathsome or dangerous contagious dis¬ 
ease, in accordance with the provisions of Rule 10 (Op. 

Compt., Jan. 15, 1008). (3) By the alien , preferably , 

but by immigrant fund under special authority. —Aliens 
whom it is necessary for any reason to hold at a port of 
entry, after admission , in accordance with Rule 15. (4) 

By steamship companies. —Aliens not falling within any 
of the foregoing classes whom it is necessary for any rea¬ 
son to hold or to treat in hospital pending determination 
of right to land, or awaiting deportation under order of 
rejection of a board of special inquiry or of the Depart¬ 
ment (sec. 19). 

(d) Covering cases of the character mentioned in class Bins for tos- 
(4) of the preceding paragraph, bills for hospital treat-JnenVof ; e a *' 
ment and maintenance shall be rendered monthly by hos¬ 
pitals against the steamship companies responsible, 
through the office of the commissioner of immigration or 
inspector in charge, the latter’s approval to be attached to 

the bills, if found correct, before forwarding them to the 
companies for settlement. Officers of the Immigration 
Service will in all such cases look to the steamship com¬ 
panies for settlement of the hospital bill. If any steam- a Re / 0 l J. s treat 0 
ship company refuses to pay such bills rendered with the ment of. 
approval of the immigration officials, it will, of course, be 
necessary to require thereafter that all aliens brought by 
the vessels of such company shall be held on board ship 
until their applications for admission have been finally 
adjudicated. 


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RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


Witnesses: 

Holding 
aliens to act 
as. 


Assisting and 
protecting 
aliens: 

Pro viding 
means in case 
of accident. 


Charges for 
care and main* 
tenance: 

Not t o ex¬ 
ceed actual 
cost. 


Members o f 
hoards o f spe¬ 
cial inquiry: 

Oath to b e 
taken by. 


Rule 14. Holding of aliens as witnesses. —When it is 
thought that the deportation of an excluded alien should 
be suspended so that his testimony may be had in a prose¬ 
cution of offenders against the Immigration Act, in re¬ 
porting to the Bureau the violation of law involved, im¬ 
migration officials should give reasons for the belief that 
the violators should be prosecuted and the aliens held as 
witnesses, and if such reasons are found sufficient, au¬ 
thority will issue, with the approval of the Secretary, for 
the holding of the witnesses at the expense of the “appro¬ 
priation for the enforcement of the immigratign act.” 
(Sec. 19.) 

Rule 15. Assistance to admitted aliens .—Any alien who 
has been admitted may be permitted to wait for friends 
or remittances upon payment by him of the actual ex¬ 
penses incurred by reason of such delay. In case such an 
alien is unable, from accident or other unavoidable cir¬ 
cumstances, to immediately continue his journey, and is 
without sufficient means to defray the expense of his 
enforced delay, the commissioner of immigration may, in 
his discretion, pay said expense, reporting said case to the 
Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, with reasons 
for his action, and request that such expense be repaid 
out of the “ appropriation for the enforcement of the 
immigration act.” 

Rule 1(>. Charges for care and maintenance .—At ports 
where the Immigration Service maintains hospitals no 
charge for food, lodging, or maintenance, or for hospital 
attendance, medicines, or other hospital expenses shall be 
made in excess of the actual cost of furnishing the same, 
the intention being to make the Service self-supporting 
without profit. 

Rule 17. Oath , hoard of special inquiry. —Any immi¬ 
gration or other Government officer appointed to serve 
on a board of special inquiry under the provisions of 
section 25 of the Act approved February 20, 1907, shall 
be required to subscribe to the following oath: 


Form 5G6. 


Department of Commerce and Labor, 
Immigration Service. 


I,-, having been designated by__ 

_to serve as a member of a board of special inquiry, 

under the provisions of section 25 of the act or Congress approved 

February 20, 1907, do solemnly_that I will use my best 

endeavors as a member of such board to enforce the laws of the 
United States relating to the admission or exclusion of certain 
classes of aliens, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the 
duties of the office mentioned. 


_and subscribed before me this_day of 

_, A. D. 19_. 

[Official seal.] _ 


Attorneys: Rule IS. Appearance of attorneys. — Attorneys and per- 

Fees to be sons appearing in behalf of detained aliens shall not be 
chaiged by , permitted to charge a sum exceeding ten dollars in each 
case unless the commissioner or officer in charge shall, in 












RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


39 


ord of. 


writing, allow an additional compensation. A family or Attorney*: 
party of aliens traveling together shall be regarded as 
constituting a “ case ” within the meaning hereof. If for 
any special reason an attorney deems himself entitled to 
a larger fee, or if it is actually necessary for such attorney 
to incur expense in an alien’s behalf, he shall report such 
facts to the commissioner or officer in charge when apply¬ 
ing for the privilege of charging an additional fee or 
claiming reimbursement for expenses, and, if permission 
is granted, shall collect such additional fee or expenses _ m etl } 0(1 _ of 

• n* • i L 4 disbarring for 

only through the commissioner or officer m charge. Any-misconduct; 
one charging an alien a fee prior to his detention, or 
charging or receiving from an alien or his relatives or 
friends a fee, gift, or compensation for his services in 
excess of the above rate, except in the manner pro¬ 
vided, or who shall deprive an alien of any part of his 
chattels or effects in lieu of, or as security for, said fee, 
will, upon reasonable proof of such misconduct, and after 
having been allowed a fair opportunity to answer the 
charge, be disbarred by the Department (to which a full 
report of the matter shall be made) from practicing at Keeping rec- 
any immigration station of the United States. The 
names and addresses of attorneys or other persons so 
disbarred shall be conspicuously posted at the immigra¬ 
tion station where the misconduct occurred and their 
names recorded in the office of the Commissioner-Gen¬ 
eral of Immigration. 

Rule 19. Notice of sailings. —The master, agent, owner, ln JJ® t,ce of 8ai1 ’ 
or consignee of any vessel on which aliens are brought Masters of 
to the United States shall, at least twenty-four hours in vessels to s ive - 
advance thereof, notify the commissioner of immigration 
or officer in charge of the intended time of sailing of 
such vessel, in order that such officer may place on board 
the vessel every alien brought thereon who has been 
finally refused a landing. 

Rule 20. Admissions under bond. —If, in following the d ^bond:° n8 
provisions of Rule 6 hereof relating to appeals, the board c a s e s j n 
of special inquiry reaches the conclusion that an alien in which permis- 
whose case a medical certificate for some physical defect, Slble; 
other than tuberculosis or a loathsome or dangerous con¬ 
tagious disease, has been rendered is excludable solely 
because such certified physical defect is, fin the board’s 
opinion, “ of a nature which may affect the ability of such 
alien to earn a living,” or render him liable to become 
a public charge, but that such alien is otherwise admissi¬ 
ble, and, after notice of his right to do so, the alien sig¬ 
nifies (within the time specified by Rule 5 hereof) an 
intention to apply for admission under bond, the board fo *\ r ° c edure 
shall not enter an excluding decision against the alien 
as in other cases', but shall make a special finding of 
fact in the premises and report the same, including the 
certificate of the medical examiner, to the immigration 
officer in charge, who shall forward the report, together 
with his recommendation, to the Secretary of Commerce 


40 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


A d m i s sinus 
under bond: 

Amount of 
bond ; 


Sureties on 
bond ; 


Bond t o b e 
in duplicate ; 


Procedure if 
bond not forth¬ 
coming. 


Japanese and 
Korean labor¬ 
ers : 


President’s 
procl amation 
concerning; 


Subject to 
general immi¬ 
gration laws ; 


and Labor, through the Commissioner-General of Immi¬ 
gration. (See secs. 10 and 26 and Rule 6.) 

If, in the exercise of the discretion conferred by law, 
the Secretary decides to admit the alien, a bond will be 
required in an amount which in no case shall be less than 
five hundred dollars. The sureties thereto shall be parties 
of known and ascertained responsibility and approved by 
the commissioner of immigration or immigration officer 
in charge. The bond shall be executed in duplicate on 
forms supplied by the Bureau, but shall not be accepted 
until landing of the alien under bond is authorized by 
the Department. 

If, within a reasonable time, not to exceed thirty days, 
after the receipt of the Department’s authority for the 
landing of an alien under bond, there is not forthcoming 
bond with acceptable sureties, that fact, and all others 
that may have a bearing upon the matter, shall be re¬ 
ported to the Department, with request for instructions; 
and if in any such case the former decision of the Depart¬ 
ment is reversed, the alien shall then be formally rejected 
by the board. 

Rule 21. Japanese and Korean laborers .—The follow¬ 
ing rule is promulgated for the purpose of giving effect to 
an Executive order of the President issued on March 14, 
1907, reading: 

Whereas, by the act entitled “An act to regulate the immigration 
of aliens into the United States,” approved February 20. 1907, 
whenever the President is satisfied that passports issued by any 
foreign government to its citizens to go to any country other than 
the United States or to any insular possession of the United States 
or to the Canal Zone, are being used for the purpose of enabling 
the holders to come to the continental territory of the United 
States to the detriment of labor conditions therein, it is made the 
duty of the President to refuse to permit such citizens of the coun¬ 
try issuing such passports to enter the continental territory of 
the United States from such country or from such insular posses¬ 
sion or from the Canal Zone; 

And Whereas, upon sufficient evidence produced before me by 
the Department of Commerce and Labor, I am satisfied that pass¬ 
ports issued by the Government of Japan to citizens of that coun¬ 
try or Korea and who are laborers, skilled or unskilled, to go to 
Mexico, to Canada and to Hawaii, are being used for the purpose 
of enabling the holders thereof to come to the continental terri¬ 
tory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions 
therein; , 

I hereby order that such citizens of Japan or Korea, to wit: 
Japanese or Korean laborers, skilled and unskilled, who have re¬ 
ceived passports to go to Mexico, Canada or Hawaii, and come 
therefrom, be refused permission to enter the continental territory 
of the United States. 

It is further ordered that the Secretary of Commerce and Labor 
be, and he hereby is, directed to take, through the Bureau of Immi¬ 
gration and Naturalization, such measures and to make and 
enforce such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry 
this order into effect. 

(a) Aliens from Japan and Korea are subject to the 
general immigration laws. 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


41 


(b) Every Japanese or Korean laborer, skilled or un¬ 
skilled, applying for admission at a seaport or at a land- 
border port of the United States and having in his posses-, 
sion a passport issued by the Government of Japan, en¬ 
titling him to proceed only to Mexico, Canada, or Hawaii, 
shall be refused admission. 

(c) If a Japanese or Korean laborer applies for ad¬ 
mission and presents no passport, it shall be presumed 
(1) that he did not possess when he departed from Japan, 
or Korea a passport entitling him to come to the United 
States, and (2) that he did possess at that time a pass¬ 
port limited to Mexico, Canada, or Hawaii. 

(d) If a Japanese or Korean alien applies for admis¬ 
sion and presents a passport entitling him to enter the 
United States or one which is not limited to Mexico, 
Canada, or Hawaii, he shall be admitted, if it appears that 
he does not belong to any of the classes of aliens excluded 
by the general immigration laws. 

( e) If a Japanese or Korean alien applies for admis¬ 
sion and presents a passport limited to Mexico, Canada, 
or Hawaii, and claims that he is not a laborer, either 
skilled or unskilled, reasonable proof of this claim shall 
be required in order to permit him to enter the United 
States. 

(/) When a Japanese or Korean alien is rejected as 
being a skilled or unskilled laborer holding a passport 
limited to Mexico, Canada, or Hawaii, he shall be al¬ 
lowed the right of appeal to the Secretary of Commerce 
and Labor under the same conditions as attach to aliens 
rejected under the general immigration laws. 

(y) If a Japanese or Korean skilled or unskilled 
laborer is found in the continental territory of the United 
States without having been duly admitted upon inspec¬ 
tion, the procedure employed under the general immigra¬ 
tion laws for the arrest and hearing of aliens who have 
entered the United States surreptitiously shall be ob¬ 
served, to the end that the right of such alien to be and 
remain in the United States may be determined; and if it 
shall appear that such alien falls within the class ex¬ 
cluded by the foregoing Executive order, and has entered 
the United States since the 14th of March, 1907, the said 
alien shall be deported according to the provisions of 
sections 20, 21, and 35 of the act of Congress approved 
February 20, 1907. 

(h) In case any Japanese or Korean is detained or de¬ 
nied admission by virtue of the foregoing Executive 
order, he shall, in addition to being informed of his right 
of appeal to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, be 
advised that he may communicate by telegraph or other¬ 
wise with any diplomatic or consular officer of his Gov¬ 
ernment, and shall be afforded opportunities for so doing. 

( i) The officials of the Department charged with the 
enforcement of the immigration laws are instructed that 
in the execution of this rule scrupulous care shall be 


Japanese and 
Korean laborers: 

Limited pass¬ 
ports held by ; 


Presumptions 
concerning ; 


Passports to 
U. S. o r un¬ 
limited ; 


Evidence as 
to status of; 


Appeal by ; 


Arrest of ; 


Deportation 
of; 


Right of, to 
communicate 
with d i p 1 o- 
matic officers ; 


Courtesy and 
consideration 
due to; 


42 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


Japanese and 
Korean laborers: 


Definition of 
term “ laborer, 
skilled and un¬ 
skilled : ” 


Indorsement 
of passports. 


Seamen: 

Why exami¬ 
nation of nec¬ 
essary ; 


Who are sea¬ 
men : 


taken to see that the courtesy and consideration which 
the Department requires in the case of all foreigners, of 
whatever nationality, are shown to those affected by 
this rule. All officers of this Department are hereby 
warned that no discrimination will be tolerated, and 
that those coming under this rule must be shown every 
courtesy and consideration to which the citizens of 
most favored nations are entitled when they come to the 
United States. 

( j) For practical, administrative purposes, the term 
“ laborer, skilled and unskilled,” within the meaning of 
the Executive order of March 14, 1907, shall be taken to 
refer primarily to persons whose work is essentially 
physical, or, at least, manual, as farm laborers, street 
laborers, factory hands, contractors’ men, stable men, 
freight handlers, stevedores, miners, and the like; and 
to persons whose work is less physical, but still manual, 
and who may be highly skilled, as carpenters, stone 
masons, tile setters, painters, blacksmiths, mechanics, 
tailors, printers, and the like; but shall not be taken to 
refer to persons whose work is neither distinctively man¬ 
ual nor mechanical, but rather professional, artistic, 
mercantile, or clerical, as pharmacists, draftsmen, pho¬ 
tographers, designers, salesmen, bookkeepers, stenogra¬ 
phers, copyists, and the like. The foregoing definition is 
subject to change, and will not preclude the Secretary of 
Commerce and Labor from deciding each individual case 
which comes to him by way of appeal in accordance with 
the particular facts and circumstances thereof. 

(k) Passports presented by Japanese and Koreans 
shall be plainly indorsed, in indelible ink, by the officer 
admitting or rejecting the applicant, in such a manner as 
to show the fact and date of admission or rejection, the 
name of the officer being signed to such indorsement; 
after which the passport shall be returned to the person 
by whom presented. 

Rule 22. In consideration of the necessities of com¬ 
merce and navigation, it has been held that foreign sea¬ 
men arriving at the ports of the United States, and land¬ 
ing therein in the pursuit of their calling, are not 
ordinarily within the operation of the immigration act 
(23 Op. Atty. Gen., 521; 207 U. S., 120). But in order 
that this exemption shall not avail to permit the intro¬ 
duction into the United States of aliens excluded there¬ 
from by the said act, it is necessary to observe the fol¬ 
lowing distinctions between foreigners who are seamen 
and other aliens: 

A seaman is any person employed to serve in any 
capacity on board any vessel plying between foreign 
ports and ports of the LTnited States, whose occupation 
consists in following the sea, and who lands in the United 
States with no intention of remaining, and not otherwise 
than on shore leave, or on the business of his vessel, or 
for the purpose of reshipping. 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


43 


Aliens, members of the crew of vessels engaged in the seamen: 
coastwise trade of the United States, are aliens within in coastwise 
the meaning of the immigration act and subject to its trade; 
provisions (Ops. Solr., June 14, 1907, and Sept.'16, 1907). 

Aliens, though members of the crew of vessels engaged Discharged; 
in the foreign trade, if their employment terminates at 
the end of the voyage to the United States, or if dis¬ 
charged in a port of the United States, are to be treated 
as seamen only if it appears that they intend to reship 
on a vessel bound to a foreign port, or to depart from 
the country within a reasonable time. 

Aliens, though members of the crew of vessels engaged Deserting; 
in the foreign trade, if they desert their ship, shall, until 
the contrary is shown, be deemed to have abandoned their 
calling, and to be no longer seamen, within the meaning 
of this rule. 

Aliens, though landing in the United States as seamen, T pound i n 
if found thereafter engaged in any occupation not con- otherwise 81 ??- 
nected with the business of a vessel to which they are at- gage(i; 
tached, or if found to be public charges, shall be treated 
as other aliens are treated, and shall be liable to deporta¬ 
tion in like manner and for like causes. 

In the application of the immigration act to aliens, of Application 
members of the crew of vessels engaged in the foreign 01 ac ° ’ 
trade of the United States, the following instructions 
will be observed: 


(a) Aliens coming to the United States as members of General pro- 
tne crew or any vessel, who are round to be seamen asinp— 
herein defined, shall not be examined by officers of the. To wha . t e y 
immigration Service further than may be necessary to 
determine their status as seamen, and to ascertain that 
they are not insane, idiots, imbeciles, epileptics, or per¬ 
sons afflicted with tuberculosis or with a loathsome or 
dangerous contagious disease; head tax shall not be cer¬ 
tified on their account; they shall not be prevented from 
landing temporarily in the United States, nor required 
to land at any designated time or place; neither shall any 
manifest of them be required, nor shall they necessarily 
be returned to the country whence they came by the ves¬ 
sels bringing them. Alien seamen, however, who are 
insane, idiots, imbeciles, epileptics, or persons afflicted 
with tuberculosis or with a loathsome or dangerous con- 1 f mentally 
tagious disease, and the existence or whose disease or dis- afflicted, not 
ability might have been detected by means of a compe- lonafidlf 1 e d 
tent medical examination at the time of foreign em¬ 
barkation, are persons whose employment on board 
vessels is in nowise necessary to commerce and naviga¬ 
tion, and who are, accordingly, not within the exception 
in favor of seamen, because not within the reason thereof. 

The bringing of such seamen to the United States, there¬ 
fore, is unlawful by the terms of section 8. 


44 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


Seamen: 

All seamen 
to be primarily 
inspected ; 


If not bona 
fide, must not 
be landed ; 


Head tax 
not assessable 
on if bona fide ; 


Manifests of 
not bona fide ; 


Procedure if 
ill and law of 
vessel’s coun¬ 
try requires re¬ 
turn home ; 


Care to be 
exercised con¬ 
cerning, when 
ill and allowed 
transit; 


fib) All aliens coming to the United States as members 
of the crew of a vessel, who, for any of the reasons here¬ 
inbefore mentioned, are found not to be seamen as herein 
defined, shall in no respect be distinguished, by reason of 
their present employment, from other aliens seeking 
admission into the United States; but it shall be the duty 
of the inspectors and medical officers detailed for the 
purpose to determine whether such aliens are clearly and 
beyond doubt entitled to land, and to hold for examina¬ 
tion by a board of special inquiry such as are not so 
entitled, and to follow the same procedure as in the case 
of alien passengers seeking to land, including the certifi¬ 
cation of head tax on account of those landed. 

( c) In case any alien emplo}u?e of a vessel is found 
by the immigration officials not to be a bona fide sea¬ 
man seeking to land in the pursuit of his calling, and 
is declared by such officials inadmissible under the im¬ 
migration act, the master, owner, agent, or consignee 
of such vessel will be required, subject to the penalties 
imposed by said act, to prevent the landing of such inad¬ 
missible alien and to return him to the country whence 
he came. 

(d) Head tax shall not be assessed on account of bona 
fide seamen landing in the pursuit of their calling. On 
account of such as are discharged with the intent to 
remain in the United States, and on account of those who 
are found or shown to have deserted and remained in the 
United States, the head tax shall be assessed. 

(e) Of such aliens employed on board vessels as are 
found by the immigration officials not to be bona fide 
seamen, or not to be seeking to land in the regular course 
of their pursuit with intent to continue their calling, 
the immigration officials shall prepare lists, in lieu of 
manifests, for use in compiling statistics, indicating in 
such lists that the alien applicants therein enumerated 
arrived at the port as employees of a vessel. 

(/) If, upon the arrival of a vessel from a foreign 
port, it is discovered that any alien member of the crew 
of such vessel is ill or disabled to such an extent as to 
make it obligatory upon the master of the vessel, under 
the navigation laws of the country to which the vessel 
belongs, to return the seaman to the country where he 
embarked, immigration officials shall confer with the 
master and with the consular representative of the coun¬ 
try to which the vessel belongs, with the object of per¬ 
fecting plans by which the master may be able to observe 
the laws of his own country without making possible or 
encouraging a violation of the immigration laws of the 
United States. If the disabled seaman relinquishes his 
calling, he shall be treated like any other alien seeking 
admission to the United States; and if, upon being 
brought before a board of special inquiry, his rejection 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


45 


is ordered the master of the vessel shall be required to Seamcn: 
return him by such vessel, or at his own expense, to the 
country where he embarked. If the seaman does not 
relinquish his calling, or if the master desires to return 
him otherwise than by the vessel on which he arrived, 
it will be permissible for him to pass through the United 
States, in transit to the country where he embarked, by 
the most expeditious and direct route: Provided , That 
(if he is suffering with a loathsome or dangerous con¬ 
tagious disease, or with tuberculosis, or is in such physi¬ 
cal or mental condition as to render him a person likely 
to become a public charge or otherwise inadmissible) 
arrangements are made for his proper care while passing 
through the country, and a sum of money sufficient to 
defray the expenses thereof is furnished by the master 
of the vessel. This being a provision made in the interest 
of trade, and because of the peculiar position occupied 
by seamen under principles of international comity, im¬ 
migration officials shall exercise care to insure a thorough 
understanding with all parties concerned, that violations 
of the immigration laws may be provided against, and 
that the spirit of foreign laws may be observed. 

(a) With a view to the more efficient enforcement of special pro- 

\ ij / CCClIIT*C COYtCCT' 

the immigration law with respect to foreign crews, and ing, to be foi- 
for the greater convenience both of officers of the Immi- ^general pro- 
gration Service and of the commercial interests involved, Vessel^ 
the following special procedure will be observed in cases 
where the master, agent, owner, or consignee of any vessel 
engaged in the foreign trade of the United States shall 
give satisfactory assurances of ability and willingness to 
comply with the conditions thereof: 

1. The master, owner, agent, or consignee of any such Mental and 
vessel shall enforce at its foreign ports of departure and ination of. at 
call a rigid medical examination of aliens seeking employ- f0l ‘ eiga ports; 
ment on such vessel which will insure the rejection of any 

and all applicants suffering with any mental or physical 
affliction which would make them inadmissible to the 
United States under section 2, or would render the vessel 
liable to the fine mentioned in section 9 of the immigra¬ 
tion act. Any failure on the part of any vessel to enforce 
such a medical examination in the case of any member of 
the crew, coming to the knowledge of an officer of the Im¬ 
migration Service, shall be promptly reported to the De¬ 
partment for appropriate action. 

2. In any case in which an alien seaman is not employed pj-o^p^cuve^is- 
or articled for the return trip voyage to and away from charge of. in 
the United States, and in any case in which it becomes p 0 n r ts; tates 
necessary for any reason to discharge an alien member of 

a crew, the master, owner, agent, or consignee of the vessel 
shall notify the commissioner of immigration or the im¬ 
migrant inspector in charge at the port of such necessity 
in due season to permit the inspection and examination 
of such alien under the provisions of the immigration act. 


46 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


Seamen: 

Regulation of 
shore leave, and 
reporting sus¬ 
picious cases 
of; 


Reporting de¬ 
sertions of, and 
ap prehending 
deserters ; 


Presumptions 
in favor of ves¬ 
sels under spe¬ 
cial procedure. 


Stowaways: 

To be treat¬ 
ed like other 
aliens. 


Ports of entry, 
Canada: 

List of. 


3. Masters, owners, agents, and consignees of such ves¬ 
sels shall enforce in the ports of the United States regula¬ 
tions on the subject of shore leave which will prevent as 
far as possible the permanent landing of alien members 
of the crew before inspection by the immigration au¬ 
thorities. They shall, also, furnish the immigration 
authorities with the names of aliens employed on their 
vessels of the bona fides of whose intention to follow the 
sea they have any reason to doubt, and shall afford op¬ 
portunity for the inspection of such aliens; and, except 
by express permission of the Immigration Service, they 
shall under no condition grant shore leave or permit the 
landing of alien seamen who are insane, idiots, imbeciles, 
epileptics, or persons afflicted with tuberculosis or with a 
loathsome or dangerous contagious disease. 

4. When desertions occur, the master, agent, owner, or 
consignee of the vessel shall promptly notif}^ the local 
immigration authorities of the name and description of 
the deserter, and any other information obtainable which 
would aid in the apprehension of such deserter, to the 
end that he may be returned to the vessel for conveyance 
to the foreign port of shipment. 

Where the foregoing conditions have been faithfully 
complied with, and satisfactory evidence thereof lias been 
presented, of the sufficiency of which the Secretary of 
Commerce and Labor shall be the sole judge, the master, 
agent, owner, or consignee will be deemed to have pro¬ 
vided a “ competent medical examination " of the vessel's 
crew at the time of foreign embarkation within the mean¬ 
ing of section 9, and will be deemed to have taken reason¬ 
able precautions to prevent the landing of alien members 
of the crew within the meaning of section 18; and the 
special procedure prescribed in the several articles of this 
paragraph (g) will be followed. 

Rule 23 . Stowaways .—The Immigration Act contains 
no provision expressly relating to stowaways. Such per¬ 
sons must be dealt with, therefore, if they' seek admission 
to the United States, precisely as other aliens are dealt 
with. 

Alien stowaways must be reported and manifested by 
the masters of vessels, immediately upon arrival at a port 
of the United States, in the same manner as other aliens: 
Provided , however , That the name of every such person 
shall be followed by the word “ stowaway.” Head tax 
shall be certified on their account, and they shall be ex¬ 
amined under the Immigration Act touching their right 
to enter the United States. 

Rule 24 . Ports of entry , Canada .—In accordance with 
section 36, the following are named as Canadian border 
ports of entry for aliens; and any alien who enters the 
United States across such border at any other point shall 
be deemed to have entered the country unlawfully, and 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


47 


shall be arrested and deported under sections 20, 21, and 
35 of said act, in the manner provided by Rule 34 hereof: 

Eastport, Calais, Vanceboro, Fort Kent, Fort Fairfield, 

"Van Buren, Houlton, and Lowelltown, Me.; Beechers 
Falls, N. H.; Island Pond, Newport, Richford, St. 

Albans, Swanton, and Alburg, Vt.; Rouses Point, 

Malone, Fort Covington, Nyando, Ogdensburg, Morris¬ 
town, Clayton, Cape Vincent, Charlotte, Olcott, Lewiston, 

Niagara Falls, and Buffalo, N. Y.; Cleveland and Toledo, 

Ohio; Detroit, St. Clair, Port Huron, and Sault Ste. 

Marie, Mich.; Chicago, Ill.; Duluth, Ranier, Interna¬ 
tional Falls, Warroad, Beaudette, and Noyes, Minn.; 

Pembina, Neche, Walhalla, Portal, and St. John, N. Dak.; 

Sweet Grass and Gateway, Mont.; Porthill and Eastport, 

Idaho; Marcus, Oroville, Sumas, and Blaine. Wash. 

Rule 25 . Admission and exclusion , Canadian ports. — awr eement* d 1 a n 
In view of the agreement between the various steamship* ° 
and railroad companies in the Dominion of Canada and 
the Commissioner-General of Immigration of the United 
States of America, inspection and entry of aliens into the 
United States from foreign countries, through Canadian 
territory, under the Immigration Act, will be accom¬ 
plished in accordance with the following provisions: 

(a) All aliens arriving in Canada, destined to the. Seaports 
United States, shall be inspected at any one of the follow- mspec lon 
ing ports: Halifax, Nova Scotia; Quebec and Point Levi, 

Quebec; St. John, New Brunswick; and Vancouver and 
Victoria, British Columbia; and the holders of certifi¬ 
cates, duly signed by the United States commissioner of 
immigration for Canada, shall be entitled to admittance 
to the United States, at any one of the places of entry 
along the border thereof named in Rule 24, without 
further examination by the United States immigration 
officers as to their right to enter, upon their identification 
and their surrender of said certificates to such officials. 

(b) The said certificates shall be in the following form: 


Admissi o n 
under: 


o f 


Certifica t e s 
of admission ; 


Alien certificate. 


No_ 


Form 524. Department of Commerce and Labor, 

Immigration Service, 


Form of ; 


This is to certify that-, a native of 

__ who arrived at the port of- 

per steamship “-on the-, 19—, 

has been duly inspected and registered, and will be admitted into 
the United States upon proper identification and surrender of this 
certificate to any immigration officer at the frontier. 

The description of the holder is as follows: Age,-; height, 

_; weight,_; color of hair,-; color of eyes,- 

Remarks: [Note destination, etc.]--- 


Surrendered at 
—-—- 


19_. 


-* 

U. S. Commissioner of Immigration. 
_, to Inspector---- 




















48 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


Canadian 

agreement: 

Seaport e x- 
amination l) y 
inspectors and 
boards; 


Deportatio n 
o f reje c t ed 
aliens : 


Manifests of 
incoming pas¬ 
sengers ; 


Payment 
head tax; 


o f 


Manifests of 
outgoing pas¬ 
sengers ; 


Certificates of 
admission ; 


( c ) The examination at Canadian ports of all aliens 
destined to the United States shall be similar in all re¬ 
spects to that conducted at ports of the United States. 
Such aliens as, in the opinion of the examining inspector, 
are not clearly entitled to admission shall be taken before 
a board of special inquiry, the decision of which shall be 
final, unless reversed upon appeal, as provided for in 
section 25. 

( d ) All aliens arriving at Canadian seaports, destined 
to the United States and who may be adjudged inadmis¬ 
sible thereto, shall be refused the certificates herein called 
for, and the steamship company bringing such aliens to 
such Canadian seaport shall be required to return them 
to the countries from which they respectively came. 

(e) The masters, owners, or agents of vessels bringing 
aliens to Canadian ports, destined to the United States, 
shall be required to furnish to the United States immi¬ 
grant inspectors in charge at such ports complete mani¬ 
fests and alphabetical books of all alien passengers ar¬ 
riving upon vessels of their respective lines, and, in ad¬ 
dition thereto, complete manifests of all alien passengers 
destined to the United States such as are now required 
by law in the cases of vessels bringing aliens to the ports 
of the United States; and the said masters, owners, or 
agents shall pay to the United States commissioner of 
immigration for Canada the sum of four dollars for each 
and every alien brought to a Canadian port and des¬ 
tined to the United States: Provided , That no head tax 
shall be levied against or collected from Canadian steam¬ 
ship lines on aliens brought to Canada, destined to the 
United States, who are shown to belong to any one of 
the excluded classes and who are returned to the country 
whence they came. In addition to the foregoing, the 
Canadian steamship companies will furnish to the United 
States commissioner of immigration for Canada (for 
transmission to the Commissioner-General of Immigra¬ 
tion) manifests of all passengers not citizens of the 
United States leaving the United States and proceeding 
by the vessels of such companies to foreign ports, as re¬ 
quired in the cases of United States transportation com¬ 
panies by section 12. 

(/) All aliens of the class upon whom head tax is 
chargeable not provided with certificates of the character 
described in paragraph (a) hereof who shall apply at 
the border between Canada and the United States within 
one year after arriving at a Canadian port shall be re¬ 
quired to return to such port, or to any one of the ports 
designated in paragraphs (a) and ( f) hereof, for guar¬ 
anty of payment of head tax, examination, and the pro¬ 
curement of the certificate described in paragraph (a) : 
Provided , That aliens destined in good faith to Canada, 
and who shall have settled at some point in the Dominion 
of Canada, who shall apply as above for admission to 
the United States within one year after arrival in Can- 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


49 


acla, shall be examined by the boards of special inquiry Canadian 
located at any one of the following points: Yarmouth, r a 

Nova Scotia ; Montreal, Quebec; Newport, Yt.; Buffalo boards * 
and Suspension Bridge, N. Y.; Detroit, Port Pluron, and 
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.; Duluth, Minn.; Winnipeg, Mani¬ 
toba; Portal, N. Dak.; Sweet Grass, Mont.; and Sumas 
and Blaine, Wash. That the decisions of the said boards Effect of 
of special inquiry shall have the same force and effect as board declslon; 
decisions rendered by boards of special inquiry at sea¬ 
ports of the United States. That the various steamship o f De ^ e l n ati r ° n 
lines shall return at their own expense, from some seaport J l ctTl Vy 
of the Dominion of Canada or of the United States, as boards; 
they may deem most practicable and may elect, to the 
trans-Atlantic or trans-Pacific country whence the aliens 
came, those aliens coming within the provisions of this 
paragraph who are shown to belong to any of the ex¬ 
cluded classes mentioned in section 2, whenever in the 
judgment of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor the 
deportation of such aliens in the manner described is 
deemed necessary to safeguard the interests of the United 
States. 

(g) All facilities in the way of accommodations, access Facilities at 
to aliens, and the keeping of aliens apart from the pub- seap01 55 ’ 

lie until after inspection shall be afforded to the immi¬ 
grant inspectors of the United States at the Canadian 
ports of landing to enable them to make such inspection 
as is required by the laws of the United States. 

(h) It is expected that the railway and other trans- certificates of 
portation companies in the Dominion of Canada will, not 

sell to any aliens en route to any part of the United States 
tickets for their transportation, or transport them in cars 
or vessels from the port of entry, until after they have. Prerequisite 
exhibited their certificates as herein provided, and will tion ; ranspor a 
not knowingly transport into the United States any re¬ 
jected or undesirable aliens or those who are by law pro¬ 
hibited from entering said country, but will return the 
rejected aliens to the ports at which they arrived. All a n^n s n no t 
aliens on account of whom the transportation companies j£j d g n ® f admfis- 
are exempted from payment of head tax, who proceed sion; 
to the border between the United States and Canada 
without having first been examined and granted a cer 
tificate of admission of the character described in para¬ 
graph (a) hereof, and who may be excluded by a border 
board of special inquiry, shall be returned by the trans¬ 
portation company carrying said aliens to the border a 
reasonable distance in Canada from said border. Aliens 
of the class last above mentioned carried to a border point 5 
where there is no board of special inquiry shall be re¬ 
turned and conveyed for examination to the nearest point 
at which a board of special inquiry is located. 

(i) The various steamship lines, parties to the Cana- 0f p hided an 3 
dian agreement, shall return at their own expense, at any depo^rtable 
time within three years from the date of landing in c asses ’ 

52520°—to-4 


50 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


Canadian 
agreement: 


Applicat i o n 
o f regulations 
to aliens com- 
i n g through 
Canada; 


Guaranteeing 
payment of 
head tax; 


Returning 
head - tax cer¬ 
tificate ; 


Disposition of 
head tax col¬ 
lected in Can¬ 
ada ; 


Commissioner 
bonded ; 


Reports from 
Canadian bor¬ 
der. 


Canada, from some Canadian port, or when that is not 
practicable from some port of the United States, such 
aliens as, having been brought into the Dominion of 
Canada upon their respective lines and having subse¬ 
quently proceeded to the United States, are shown to 
belong to any one of the excluded or deportable classes 
mentioned in the act of Congress approved February 20, 
1907, whenever deportation of such an alien is ordered by 
the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. 

(j) The immigration regulations adopted b}^ the De¬ 
partment of Commerce and Labor relating to the exam¬ 
ination of aliens at ports of the United States shall apply, 
in so far as may be practicable, to the inspection of aliens 
coming through the Dominion of Canada destined to the 
United States. 

(k) All aliens of the taxable class seeking to enter the 
United States from Canada or Newfoundland shall be 
denied examination under the United States immigration 
laws (except to a sufficient extent to determine their lia¬ 
bility for head tax) until they present to the examining 
officer or officers a certificate from a duly appointed agent 
of the transportation company bringing such aliens to 
the border, guaranteeing that responsibility for the pay¬ 
ment of head tax on account of such aliens will be assumed 
by said transportation company, certificate guaranteeing 
payment of head tax being returnable to the applicant for 
admission in the event of his exclusion, such certificate be¬ 
fore its return to the alien to have the word “Rejected” 
stamped or Avritten in red ink across its face. 

(l) All moneys collected as provided in paragraph ( e ) 
hereof shall be transmitted by the United States commis¬ 
sioner of immigration for Canada to an assistant treasurer 
of the United States in the same manner as other miscel¬ 
laneous collections are reported by collectors of customs 
of the United States, to be deposited to the credit of the 
Treasurer of the United States on account of the “ immi¬ 
grant fund.” Statement of such receipts, under this 
agreement, must be rendered monthly to the Secretary of 
Commerce and Labor, on forms provided for that purpose. 

(m) Said United States commissioner of immigration 
for Canada shall give bond to the United States in the 
sum of ten thousand dollars, with sureties approved by 
the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, conditioned for 
the faithful discharge of his duties and the remittance of 
abo\ r e collections. He shall make monthly reports to the 
Commissioner-General of Immigration, upon blanks to be 
furnished by the Department of Commerce and Labor, of 
all aliens arriving at stations under the jurisdiction of 
the said commissioner of immigration. 

(n) United States officers charged with the execution 
of the immigration laws and regulations along the Cana¬ 
dian border will, at the end of each month and from time 
to time as may be required, report in writing to the 
United States commissioner of immigration for Canada, 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


51 


upon blanks to be prescribed by him, the number of aliens 
passing through their respective ports of entry and the 
Canadian ports at which they landed, and the said com¬ 
missioner of immigration for Canada will make to the 
Commissioner-General of Immigration similar reports in 
consolidated form, comprising both ocean and border ports. 

Rule 26. Ports of entry , Mexico .—In accordance with 
section 36, the following are named as Mexican border 
ports of entry for aliens, and any alien who enters the 
United States across such border at any other point shall 
be deemed to have entered the country unlawfully, and 
shall be arrested and deported, under sections 20, 21, and 
35 of said act, in the manner provided by Rule 34 hereof: 
Brownsville, Hidalgo, Laredo, Eagle Pass, Del Rio, and 
El Paso, Tex.; Douglas, Naco, and Nogales, Ariz.; and 
Andrade, Campo, Calexico, and Tia Juana, Cal. 

Rule 27. Admission and exclusion , Mexico .—Aliens 
applying for admission at the Mexican border ports of 
entry named in Rule 26 are subject to examination in the 
same manner and to the same extent as though arriving 
at seaports, except in the following particulars: 

(a) In the cases of aliens who are brought to said ports 
by a transportation or bridge company statistical data 
shall be gathered and information as to the manner in 
which head tax, if taxable, is to be assessed indicated by 
the use of a blank form reading as follows: 


Ports of en¬ 
try, Mexico: 
List of. 


Mexican bor¬ 
der: 

Inspection 
along ; 


Blanks to be 
used in collect¬ 
ing statistics 
and head tax ; 


Report of inspection. 

Department of Commerce and Labor, 

Immigration Service, Serial No._ 

Mexican Border District, 

List No._ 

Line _ Port of_, 

Arrived via_ {Date) _I_, 19 _ 


Form 548. 


Manifest 


Personal description. 

Place of 
birth. 

Height. 

Com¬ 

plexion. 

Color of— 

Marks of identification. 

Feet. 

Inches. 

Hair. 

Eyes. 










. . 



Name,_; Accompanied by_; Sheet No. —; Age,_; 

Sex,_; Married or single,_; Occupation,_; Read,_; Write,_; 

Nationality,_; Race,_; Last residence,_; 

Name and address of nearest of kin in country from whence 

alien came,__ 

Final destination,_; Ticket,_; Passage paid by_ 

Money,_; Ever in U. S.?_; Where?_; When?_; 

Going to join_; Name and address,_ 

Ever in prison, etc.?_; Polygamist,_; 

Anarchist,_; Contract laborer,_; 

Health_; Transit_; 

Head tax assessable aganist_ 

Action by primary inspector_ 

Immigrant* _, 

Statistical* Inspector. 

Nonimmigrant* _, 

Nonstatistical* Interpreter. 
























































52 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


Mexican bor 
der: 


Use of above 
blank ; 


Blanks for 
reporting 
aliens subject 
to bead tax ; 


CHARACTER OF HEAD TAX ASSESSED. 

Straight* Special deposit* (Rule No._) Refund certified! — 

ACTION BY BOARD OF SPECIAL INQUIRY. 


Hearing held Serial No._ 

_t Admitted_* Deferred,_ 

_f Debarred_* Cause,_ 


ACTION BY DEPARTMENT. 

Appeal: Sustained_t Dismissed_t Authority— Received_f 

Domicile: Allowed_t Denied_t Authority_ Received_t 

Bond : Granted_f Denied_f Authority_Received_t 

Final action (character of),_ Date,_ 

Detained (cause),_from_to_, inch 


^Strike out inappropriate headings. tlnsert date. 

( b ) The above blank shall be used by every officer of 
tlie immigration service making examinations of aliens 
brought to Mexican border ports b}^ transportation or 
bridge companies, and shall be filled out completely in 
each case and delivered to the inspector in charge at the 
port of entry, who will thereupon compile from such 
forms a detailed notice to the collector of customs, upon 
blanks which will be provided, reading as follows: 

Statement of aliens subject to head tax. 

Form 549. Department of Commerce and Labor, 

Immigration Service, 

Mexican Border District. 

Office of_, 

Tort of_, 

-, 19- 

Collector of Customs, 


Sir: I hereby certify that head tax has been incurred by ° 

-on account of alien passenger arriving by 

-on this date, and duly admitted: 

Alien subject to head tax at .$4 each, as follows: 


- $ 

Amount to he deposited on account of alien in transit 

(Rule 41) and held as special deposit (Treasury 
decision 24439), as follows: b 


- $ 

Amount to he deposited on account of alien held for 

examination by board of special inquiry (Rule 1) 
and held as spec 5 ;’! deposit: 6 


- 

Total .... $ 


(Name.) 


(Title.) 


a Give train number and state mode of transportation. 

6 Names of aliens and their manifest numbers must be given. 


t 













































RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


53 


bor- 


(c) In the cases of taxable aliens who cross the border Mexican 
by other than regular (bridge or railway) transportation dcr E ? amination 
as a preliminary to regular examination under the laws, J fn alien' 8 
such alien shall be questioned only sufficiently to deter- possession, 
mine with precision whether, in the event that full ex¬ 
amination should show him to be admissible, he is in 
financial condition to pay the four dollars head tax. If 
found to be in possession of sufficient funds in this re¬ 
spect, the examination may be completed, and if the alien 
is found eligible he shall be required to pay the head tax 
before being permitted to land; the blanks above given 
to be used for the purpose of certifying the head tax to 
the collector of customs. 


Rule 28. Fine , bringing of diseased aliens .—As a Fines: 
means of enforcing the collection of any fine imposed _ 9 n account 
under the provisions of section 9 of the Immigration Act, aliens— 
the said section directs the refusal of clearance papers to 
any vessel bringing an alien diseased as described therein 
to a port of the United States. To avoid, on the one ir ^^ s ? n “ . e r of 
hand, the denial of reasonable time to the master, agent, 
owner, or consignee to show cause why such fine should 
not be imposed and, on the other hand, the loss of the 
summary and effective means provided for the collec 
tion of such fines, the following instructions will be 
observed: 


(a) The certificate of the medical examiner in the case 
of an alien afflicted with a loathsome or dangerous con- 


Medical 
tificates ; 


cer- 


tagious disease shall state in terms whether, in his judg¬ 
ment, the “ existence of such disease might have been de¬ 
tected by means of a competent medical examination at 
the port of foreign embarkation.” 

(b) Upon the receipt of a medical certificate in com- Notification; 
pliance with the preceding paragraph hereof, the com¬ 
missioner of immigration or inspector in charge at the 
port of arrival shall at once serve notice upon the master, 
agent, owner, or consignee of the vessel upon which such 
alien arrived in the following form, printed blanks for 
that purpose to be procured from the Department, viz: 


Notice of liability for fine on account of bringing diseased alien to Form of no- 

the United States. tlce; 


Form 507. Department of Commerce and Labor, 

Immigration Service, 

[Prepare Office of- 

in triplicate.] Port of_ 


To 


_of the steamship 

[Master, agent, owner, or consignee.] 


19_ 


In conformity with the requirements of Rule 2S of the Immi¬ 
gration Regulations, you are hereby notified that the certificate of 
the examining surgeon, based upon a physical examination of the 
alien whose name is shown herein, indicates that a fine should be 









54 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


Fines: imposed under the provisions of section 9 of tlie Immigration Act 

On account approved February 20, 1907. 
diseased if you desire a hearing as to whether a fine should be imposed 
aliens i n j ns tance, you will be allowed sixty days from the date of 

this notice for that purpose, and the vessel on which the said alien 
arrived will be granted clearance papers when she is ready to 
sail and allowed to proceed upon her outward-bound voyage, upon 
condition that you deposit with the collector of customs at this 
port, prior to her sailing, the sum of one hundred dollars as 
security for the payment of the said fine, should it be imposed. 

Name of alien. Steamship. Disease. 


[Name.] 


[Official title.] 

Received the above notice_, 19—, at-M. 

[Time.] 


(Witness:) 


Disposition 
of notice; 


Deposit; 


Stay 
tion ; 


of a c 


( c ) The notification shall be prepared in triplicate, the 
original to be delivered by an employee of the Immigra¬ 
tion Service at the office of the master, agent, owner, or 
consignee to whom it is addressed, said employee to w it¬ 
ness the signature of the recipient. Neceipt of service 
shall be indorsed upon the duplicate and triplicate, the 
duplicate to be returned to the office of the commissioner 
of immigration or inspector in charge and preserved as 
proof of delivery, and the triplicate to be delivered to the 
collector of customs, who will withhold clearance papers 
until the deposit is made. 

(cl) The special deposit of one hundred dollars re¬ 
quired to stay action for the period of sixty days shall be 
made to the collector of customs for the district wherein 
the port of arrival is located before such sailing, and in 
default thereof all further proceedings shall be discon¬ 
tinued and the facts certified to the Bureau of Immigra¬ 
tion and Naturalization bv first mail, together with the 
medical certificate and duplicate notice, in order that such 
action may be taken as the evidence requires. 

(e) If, after service of the notice as provided in para¬ 
graph (b) of this circular, the deposit of one hundred 
dollars has been made in conformity with the said notice, 
the commissioner of immigration or inspector in charge 
shall suspend further proceedings until the submission of 
the evidence offered to show why the said fine should not 
be imposed, or until the lapse of the specified period of 
sixty days thereafter. When the said evidence has been 
submitted it shall be forwarded, together with the cer¬ 
tificate of the examining surgeon and duplicate notice, 
to the Commissioner-General of Immigration, for pres¬ 
entation to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, by the 
said commissioner or inspector in charge, who shall at the 
same time present his written views as to whether the said 
fine should be imposed. If no evidence is submitted 
prior to the expiration of the said sixty days, then said 
commissioner or inspector in charge shall report the case, 











RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


55 


without such evidence, for action by the Secretary of 
Commerce and Labor. 

(/) Upon receipt of the decision of the Secretary of 
Commerce and Labor, a copy thereof shall be forwarded 
to the collector of customs, together with such data as may 
enable him to identify the special deposit made in that 
particular case. If the said decision imposes the fine, the 
one hundred dollars deposited as security shall be ac¬ 
counted for by the said collector in the usual manner as 
a fine; if the decision holds that the penalty has not been 
incurred, the collector of customs shall return to the de¬ 
positor the amount deposited as security. 

Rule 29. Fine , failure to deliver manifests .—If the 
master or commanding officer of any vessel bringing 
aliens to a United States port fails to deliver to the im¬ 
migration officers at such port lists or manifests, as 
required by sections 12, 13, and 14, and it therefore be¬ 
comes necessary to collect the fine imposed by section 15, 
the following instructions shall be observed: 

(a) Written notice, clearly setting forth the particulars 
in which the lists or manifests are deficient, shall be served 
upon the steamship company concerned, allowing such 
company the period of sixty days from date of notice 
within which to place before the Department, through 
the local immigration officials, such evidence, if any, as 
said company may possess to show cause why the statu¬ 
tory penalty should not be collected. Copies of such 
notices and the responses thereto shall be kept of record, 
and shall be forwarded to the Department in the event 
the collection of the penalty is protested; and in no pro¬ 
tested case shall suit be instituted to enforce collection 
until the Department has rendered a decision directing 
that collection be made. 

(b) Similar notice shall be given by collectors of cus¬ 
toms as a preliminary to collecting fines for failure to 
promptly furnish manifests of outward-bound alien pas¬ 
sengers. (See Rule XXIX, statistical regulations.) 

( c ) Under an opinion of the Attorney-General, the 
fine mentioned in this rule can not be remitted. (25 Op. 
At. Gen., 336.) 

(d) In no case covered by this rule shall the aggregate 
amount of fines collected in any one instance of departure 
of a vessel exceed one hundred dollars. 

(e) The detailed statistical information required under 
section 12 of the Immigration Act and section 1 of the 
naturalization act of June 29, 1906, shall not hereafter 
be required to be furnished in the cases of diplomatic and 
consular officers, and other officials duly accredited by 
their governments, together with their suites, families, 
and guests, coming to the United States or in transit. 
The names of all such diplomatic and consular repre¬ 
sentatives and their suites, families, and guests, with their 
respective titles, should, however, appear grouped 
together upon the manifest. 


Fines: 

On account 
diseased 
aliens — 

Final pro¬ 
ceedings. 


For nonmani¬ 
festing — 


Notice and 
procedure as to 
incoming pas¬ 
sengers ; 


Procedure for 
protesting col¬ 
lection ; 


Notice as to 
outgoing pas¬ 
sengers ; 


Can not be 
remitted ; 


Aggregate 
not to exceed 
$100, in cases 
departure; 

Exemption on 
account diplo¬ 
matic and con¬ 
sular officers ; 


56 


RULES RELATING TO ADMISSION OR EXCLUSION. 


Fines: 

For nonmani¬ 
festing — 
Questioning 
aliens concern¬ 
ing items lack¬ 
ing in mani¬ 
fests, 


Certificate of 

surgeon, re¬ 
garding aliens 
aboard vessel: 

What accept¬ 
able. 


Manifests: 

Alphabetical 
indexes of. 


Fines: 

Method of re¬ 
porting when 
U. S. attorney 
requested to 
prosecute. 


(/) As an additional precaution, all aliens examined 
at ports of entry, concerning whom complete information 
is not furnished in the manifests, should be questioned as 
to whether demand was made upon them by the repre¬ 
sentatives of the steamship company at the port of foreign 
embarkation for the items of information that are lack¬ 
ing; and in case such answer is in the negative, the affi¬ 
davit of the alien shall be taken and filed for future 
reference if required. 

( g ) The certificate (unverified) of a responsible sur¬ 
geon located at the point of embarkation or at the last 
port of call, prepared in the form appearing upon the re¬ 
verse side of the manifest (Form 1500), shall be accepted 
as a sufficient compliance with section 14 requiring that 
when no surgeon sails with a vessel bringing aliens to the 
United States, the mental and physical examination of 
such aliens shall be made by “ some competent surgeon 
employed by the owners of the said vessel.” 

(h) There will be furnished to the steamship company 
by the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization blank 
books suitable for use in the preparation of alphabetical 
indexes of manifests. 

Rule 30. Fines , reporting of .—The following method 
will be observed in reporting fines incurred under the 
immigration laws: 

(a) Commissioners of immigration or inspectors in 
charge will, in all cases wherein a United States attorney 
is requested to institute proceedings for the recovery of 
prescribed penalties or to undertake criminal prosecution 
of an alleged offender against the immigration laws, make 
a report at the same time to the collector of customs for 
the district in which the offense was alleged to have been 
committed. Said report shall be rendered in every case 
which may arise, irrespective of the possible outcome of 
any legal proceedings, and shall embrace the following: 
(1) Date when offense was committed; (2) act, and sec¬ 
tion thereof, violated; (3) nature of offense; (4) name 
of offender; (5) nationality, kind, and name of vessel; 
(6) statutory amount of fine; (7) date of reporting case 
given to each violation. 

(b) Upon receipt of the. above reports, the collector of 
customs will give each case a number in chronological 
order. When more than one section of a statute is vio¬ 
lated by the same vessel, a separate case number will be 
given to each violation. 

( c ) At the close of each month, collectors of customs 
will render reports in the same manner as in the case of 
navigation and steamboat-inspection fines, viz: All fines 
incurred during the month must be reported on Form 
Cat. No. 1078, showing, under the heading u Remarks,” 
the date when the case was reported to the United States 
attorney. 


RULES RELATING TO DEPORTATION. 


57 


( d ) All fines disposed of during the month must be 
reported on Form Cat. No. 1006. In connection with this 
form, the account current (Form Cat. No. 1000) must be 
used. 

(e) At the close of June and December in each year, 
semiannual reports, on Form Cat. No. 1079, must be ren¬ 
dered, showing all unsettled cases on hand and explain¬ 
ing the cause of delay in disposing of them. 


RULES RELATING TO DEPORTATION. 


Rule 31. Deportation , aliens subject to. —Aliens of the 
following classes are subject to arrest, upon the warrant 
of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and to deporta¬ 
tion to the country whence they came, at any time within 
three years after landing or entry: 

(a) Aliens who, at the time of entry, belonged to any 
of the classes of persons enumerated and defined in sec¬ 
tion 2 of the Immigration Act or in the Executive order 
of March 14, 1907, and who should, therefore, have been 
then excluded. (Secs. 20, ,21.) 

(5) Aliens who become public charges from causes ex¬ 
isting prior to landing. (Sec. 20.) 

(c) Alien women or girls who are found to be inmates 
of a house of prostitution or practicing prostitution. 

( d ) Aliens who are found to have entered the United 
States at any other place than at the seaports thereof or 
at one of the ports or places designated in Rules 24 and 
26 hereof, and aliens found to have entered at a seaport, 
but at any time or place other than as designated by the 
immigration officers. (Secs. 18, 36.) 

Rule 32. Public charges from prior causes. —The case 
of every alien found to have become a public charge from 
causes existing prior to landing should be reported to the 
immigration officer stationed nearest the place where the 
alien is confined. This report must be accompanied by — 

(1) An unequivocal certificate (Form 534) of the prin¬ 
cipal medical officer of the institution of which the alien 
is an inmate, setting forth: 

(a) That the alien is a public charge, and giving: 
Date of admission to the institution; date and port of 
foreign embarkation; ship and line by which arrived; 
date and port of American debarkation; correct name; 
name under which manifested; age; nationality; and 
citizenship. 

(b) An accurate statement in plain terms of the men¬ 
tal or physical disability of the alien, covering any and 
all complications which his condition may present ; also 
his present condition with reference to the degree of help¬ 
lessness to which reduced; the probability of a cure, or 
the degree to which health and ability to become self- 
supporting may be restored; and in insanity cases, 


I) ep ortation, 
aliens subject 
to: 


Members ex¬ 
cluded classes ; 


Public 
charges; 

Prostitutes ; 


Those enter¬ 
ing surrepti¬ 
tiously. 


Public charges 
from prior 
causes: 

Reporting 
cases of; 


Medical cer¬ 
tificate of; 


Data for 
verifying land¬ 
ing of; 


Exact condi- 
tio n to be 
shown ; 


58 


RULES RELATING TO DEPORTATION. 


Public charges 
from prior 

causes: 

Statement of 
causes re¬ 
quired ; 

Origin of 
causes; 


Copy of his¬ 
tory required; 


Commitment 
papers; 


Further cer- 
t i f i c a t e re¬ 
quired if possi¬ 
ble. 


Public 

charges: 

Medical cer¬ 
tificate con¬ 
cerning, 


Deportation: 

Appl ication 
for warrant of. 


Depo rtation, 
procedure: 


Application 
for arrest war¬ 
rant : 


whether recurrent attacks might be expected if recovery 
from present onset were effected. 

(c) A full and complete recital of the causes to which 
are attributed the alien’s condition as a public charge. 

(d) Whether such causes are considered to have ex¬ 
isted prior to or to have arisen subsequent to landing; and 
if believed to have existed prior to landing, stating spe- 
cifically the reasons upon which belief in prior cause is 
based, or, in other words, the features of the case which 
justify such a conclusion. 

(2) A complete copy of the clinical or general history 
of the case as shown by the hospital records, and includ¬ 
ing the statements of relatives and friends. 

(3) In the cases of insane patients, a copy of the com¬ 
mitment papers containing the grounds alleged by the ex¬ 
amining physicians as the basis for commitment. 

(4) Before applying for a warrant in accordance with 
Rule 34, the immigration officer to whom the foregoing 
report is made shall, whenever practicable, cause the alien 
to be examined by an officer of the Public Health and 
Marine-Hospital Service, whose certificate should accom¬ 
pany the application for a warrant. 

Rule 33. Public charges , medical certificate. —In the 
event that the examining medical officer is able definitely 
to certify that an alien was, at the time of landing in the 
United States, afflicted with insanity, idiocy, imbecility, 
feeble-mindedness, epilepsy, tuberculosis, or a loathsome 
or dangerous contagious disease, such a certificate will be 
regarded as prima facie evidence of entry in violation of 
section 2 of the Immigration Act, and, in the absence of 
satisfactory evidence to the contrary, the alien will be 
deported in accordance with the provisions of sections 
20 and 21. 

Rule 34. Deportation , application for wainrant. —Every 
immigration officer receiving a report in conformity with 
Rule 32, accompanied by a medical certificate that com¬ 
plies with either Rule 32 or Rule 33, shall communicate 
with the officer in charge at the port of entry and, if 
landing is verified from the official records, shall make 
application for warrant in the manner provided by Rule 
35. Such aliens will not be removed from the institutions 
in which they are confined until after due hearing and 
after an order of deportation is issued, or unless special 
instructions for removal are incorporated in the warrant. 

Rule 35. Deportation , procedure. —In enforcing sec¬ 
tions 20 and 21 of the act approved February 20, 1907, 
the following instructions regarding applications for war¬ 
rants of arrest and deportation will be observed: 

(a) All applications for warrants must be made, if 
possible, upon blank form No. 565, which will be fur¬ 
nished upon written request to the Commissioner-General 
of Immigration, Department of Commerce and Labor, 
and which must be filled out in accordance with the 


RULES RELATING TO DEPORTATION. 


59 


printed lines contained therein, and be accompanied by Deportation, 
the certificate of landing or entry (Form No. 564) herein- 1>r ° ce ur ° : 
after prescribed, or if not so accompanied the reasons for 
the absence of such certificate must be given, and in that 
case all the facts called for in the blank form of said cer¬ 
tificate shall be set forth in the application, so far as the 
facts are ascertainable. 

(b) A full statement must be made in every such appli- acC o2pany® t0 
cation of the facts, supported if practicable by affidavits, 

which show the presence in the United States of the alien 
whose arrest and deportation is sought to be in violation 
of law. 

(c) The certificate of landing in or entry into the of ] a ®^g^ tion 
United States must contain a complete statement in detail 

of all the facts disclosed as to any such alien by the mani¬ 
fest or list containing his name, with an attached certifi¬ 
cate by the officer in charge of such manifest that the 
information given agrees in all particulars with the record 
of such alien in said list or manifest. 

( d) Telegraphic application for warrants should be Telegraphic 
avoided so tar as possible, but, it the circumstances oiarrest war- 
any particular case make it absolutely necessary to resort rant; 

to request by wire, such request must state that the fore¬ 
going regulations have been complied with, and that the 
form of application and certificate hereinbefore men¬ 
tioned have been forwarded to the Department, and must 
give the substance of the statement of facts contained in 
the said application and certificate. In order to obviate 
any possible legal difficulty in the service of the tele¬ 
graphic warrant, the Department will confirm the tele¬ 
gram by sending in the next outgoing mail a formal 
written warrant. The statement of facts, contained in 
the telegraphic application, therefore, must be sufficiently 
complete and specific to form the basis of the formal 
warrant. 

(e) If, thereafter, it appears to the Secretary that the a | n t ce war- 
alien concerned is in the United States unlawfully, and rant; 

that the time within which he may be deported has not 
expired, a warrant for his arrest shall issue directing that 
he be taken before the person or persons therein described 
and there be given a hearing, at which he shall have full 
opportunity to show cause, if any there be, why he should 
not be deported. 

During the course of the hearing the alien shall un¬ 

allowed to inspect the warrant of arrest and all the evi- rant; 
dence on which it was issued; and, at such stage thereof 
as the person before whom the hearing is held shall deem 
proper, the alien shall be apprised that he may thereafter 
be represented by counsel, and shall be required then and 
there to state whether he desires counsel or waives the 
same, and his reply shall be entered on the record. If. co ? n sen ts ° f 
counsel be selected he shall be permitted to be present 


60 


RULES RELATING TO DEPORTATION. 


Interpreter to 
be secured ; 


Medical 
tificate; 


cer- 


Release u n 
der bond ; 


during the further conduct of the hearing, and be per¬ 
mitted to inspect and make a copy of the minutes of the 
hearing so far as it has proceeded, and to offer evidence 
to meet any evidence theretofore or thereafter presented 
by the Government. At the close of the hearing all of 
the papers, including the minutes, and any written argu¬ 
ment submitted by counsel for the alien, shall be for¬ 
warded to the Department as the record on which to 
determine whether or not a warrant for deportation shall 
issue. 

If the alien is unable to speak or understand English, 
an interpreter shall, where practicable, be employed. If 
it be necessary to employ as such some one outside the 
Service, authority for payment of a reasonable compensa¬ 
tion will, upon request, be granted. If the alien be 
physically or mentally incapable of testifying, his rela¬ 
tives, friends, or acquaintances, if any, shall be questioned. 

(/) The record of the hearing accorded an alien who 
is insane or has become a public charge shall be supple¬ 
mented bv a ivritten certificate of the medical officer in 
charge of the institution in which the alien is confined, 
showing whether such alien is in condition to be deported 
without danger to life. 

(g) Pending decision upon the case the arrested alien 
shall be released from custody, provided there is fur¬ 
nished, as required by the proviso to section 20, a satisfac¬ 
tory bond running to the United States and conditioned 
for the production of the alien to the immigration officers 
for hearing or hearings and for deportation in the event 
of the issuance of a departmental warrant of deportation. 

Sureties o n The sureties on such bond shall be parties of ascertained 
financial responsibility; and in preparing the bond a 
blank form supplied by the Bureau of Immigration and 
of Naturalization will be used. No alien so arrested shall 
be released, however, until the authority of the Depart¬ 
ment to accept bond in a specified sum is received, nor 
until the sureties on the bond have been found to be 
reliable. Before releasing the alien either one of two 
methods shall be observed (as may be deemed best calcu¬ 
lated to secure an expeditious handling of the case) to 
have the bond approved as to form and execution: First, 
the bond to be forwarded to the Bureau at Washington 
for review by the solicitor of the Department; or, second, 
the bond to be submitted to the local United States attor¬ 
ney for such purpose. In any event the alien shall be 
promptly released on receipt of advice that the bond has 
been approved as to form and execution, and the bond 
shall be forwarded to the Bureau for formal acceptance 
by the Secretary. 

(h) If, after the receipt of the report of such hearing, 
it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary, from 
all the evidence, that such alien is in the United States 
in violation of law and that the time within which he can 


bond 


Approval 
bond ; 


Issuance o f 
deportat ion 
warrant; 


RULES RELATING TO DEPORTATION. 


61 


be deported has not expired, a warrant will be issued for D e p ° station 
his deportation. procedure: 

(i) Officers are directed to make thorough investiga- care to be 
tion of all cases where they are credibly informed, or c?ndu5tin| d iS 
have reason to believe, that a specified alien is in the vesti s atioa : 
•United States in violation of law. It is not permissible 

for officers to resort to any form of intimidation, by 
threats, violence, or otherwise, in order to extort from 
any suspected alien or from any other person the in¬ 
formation to be embodied in the application for the war¬ 
rant of arrest. Officers are specially cautioned not to 
lend their aid in causing the arrest of aliens upon charges 
arising out of personal spite or enmity, unless the truth 
of such charges is clearly established. 

( j ) In every case in which a warrant of deportation is Notice to 
issued under sections 20 and 21, the immigration official s p t |n“ ; sllip com ' 
in charge at the port from which deportation is to be 

made shall notify the steamship line, on a vessel of which 
the alien is to be placed, of the intended deportation as 
promptly as possible after receipt of a copy of the de¬ 
partmental warrant and of advices from the officer under 
whose supervision the arrest and hearing in the case have 
been effected. And in all such cases care shall be exer¬ 
cised by all immigration officials concerned to furnish the 
steamship officials with full and exact information con¬ 
cerning the name, destination, condition of health, etc., 
of the alien to be deported. 

(k) If the conditions are such that an attendant (or Attendant to 
matron) will be required to assist in conveying an alien seaport 
from an inland point to the seaport of deportation, spe¬ 
cial request for authorization therefor should accompany 

the record of hearing under a warrant of arrest. Such 
attendants will be allowed a nominal compensation of 
one dollar and traveling expenses both ways. This rate 
must not be exceeded in any instance without special 
authorization, based upon extraordinary conditions, to 
be fully set forth for the guidance of the Department. 

Rule 36. Deportation , cost of maintenance. —The cost Arrest and de- 
of maintaining aliens during the pendency of warrant portatlon! 
proceedings under the preceding rules is a proper charge Expense of 
against the appropriation “ Expenses of regulating im- proceed 6 
migrationbut in cases of aliens who have become how 
public charges from causes existing prior to landing in )01ne ’ 
the United States such cost shall not be allowed for any 
period preceding the date of issuance of warrant of 
arrest to an officer of the Immigration Service, and even 
then only in the event that the Department, upon investi¬ 
gation, orders the deportation of the alien. Maintenance Time for 
bills under this rule shall be delivered to the immigration rendermgbllls; 
officer in immediate charge of the case within a period 
of twenty days from the close of the calendar month 
in which occurs the death of the alien or removal from 
the institution for deportation. Failure to so render 


62 


RULES RELATING TO DEPORTATION. 


Arrest and de¬ 
portation : 

Method of ob¬ 
taining reim¬ 
bursement 
when import¬ 
ers are prose¬ 
cuted. 


Deportation: 

Procedure in 
cases of insane 
or diseased 
aliens ; 

Aliens re¬ 
quiring special 
care and at¬ 
tention ; 


Procedure in 

cases of; 


Returns by 
vessels con¬ 
cerning ; 


Delivery of 
forms of re¬ 
turns ; 


maintenance bills shall relieve the United States from any 
responsibility for the payment thereof. If proceedings 
against a procurer or contractor are instituted in accord¬ 
ance with sections 3, 5, or 20 of the Immigration Act, 
immigration officers should report to the United States 
district attorney the amount of the cost of deporting the 
alien, including one-half of the entire cost of removal to 
the port of deportation, so that a proper effort may be 
made to recover such expense from the procurer or im¬ 
porter and the reimbursement of the Government and the 
transportation company for their respective parts thereof. 

Rule 37. Deportation , procedure in cases of insane or 
diseased aliens requiring special care and attention: a 

(a) When deportation is to be effected either under 
warrant procedings or in pursuance of rejection at a 
port, the responsible steamship company shall be required 
to afford the deported alien special care and attention, if, 
in the first class of cases, the Department decides when 
issuing the warrant that such care and attention are 
necessary, or if, in the second class of cases, the commis¬ 
sioner or inspector in charge at the port renders such a 
decision. The report of hearing in warrant proceedings 
should be accompanied by a statement obtained from the 
physician (if practicable a surgeon of the Public Health 
and Marine-Hospital Service) having personal knowledge 
of the alien’s condition, showing such condition in terms 
that will enable the Department to determine whether 
special care and attention are needed. 

(b) If the Department (or the commissioner or in¬ 
spector in charge, as the case may be) finds that the alien 
requires special care and attention, the steamship line by 
which deportation occurs must provide all necessary care 
and attention as called for bv his condition, not onlv dur- 
ing the ocean voyage, but also (except as hereinafter pro¬ 
vided) during the foreign land journey. Proof that such 
care and attention have been provided and the alien sent 
to his final destination must be furnished through sheets 
“ B ” and “ C ” of Form 597 hereinafter referred to. 

(c) The alien may be delivered to the master or first or 
second officer of the vessel by which deportation is to 
occur, and together with the alien there shall be delivered 
Form 597 (composed of sheets “A,” “ B,” and U C”), 
also a duplicate carbon of sheet “A.” The receipt and 
sheet “A” will be completely filled out by an immigration 
officer (except as to signature) prior to delivery. He 
shall also insert at the blank space following “ No.” at the 
top of each sheet the number of the departmental warrant 
where deportation occurs pursuant to warrant, and the 
local correspondence file number where deportation occurs 


° For special regulations regarding arrest and deportation of 
prostitutes and procurers, and anarchists and criminals, see De¬ 
partment Circulars Nos. 150 and 163, respectively. 



RULES RELATING TO DEPORTATION. 


63 


pursuant to rejection by a board. The receipt attached to Deputation: 
sheet “A” shall be signed by the ship’s officer to whom 
the alien has been delivered and returned forthwith to the 
immigartion officer making delivery. Sheets “ B ” and 
“ C ” shall be retained by the ship’s officer and in due 
course filled out by the agents or persons therein desig¬ 
nated and by them returned by mail as therein provided. 

( d) From the foreign port of debarkation the steam- Preparation 
ship company must forward the alien to destination in ° reulns ’ 
charge of a proper custodian (all expenses to be borne 

by such company), except only in cases where foreign 
public officials decline to allow such custodian to proceed 
and themselves take charge of the alien. In that event 
this fact must be shown by signing the form provided in 
the lower half of sheet u C; ” and where foreign public 
officials have taken charge at the port of debarkation it 
will be unnecessary to fill out any portion of the form on 
the upper half of sheet “ C.” 

Where the foreign public officials take charge not at 
the port of debarkation, but at an interior frontier, both 
forms on sheet u C ” must be filled in, the former in rela¬ 
tion to the inland journey as far as such frontier. 

(e) Whenever, without excuse satisfactory to the com- Mailing of 
missioner or inspector in charge of immigration at the returns ’ 
port of embarkation, a steamship company has failed, for 

a period of sixty da}^s after departure of an alien requir¬ 
ing special, care and attention under this rule, to comply 
with any of the terms thereof, including failure to return 
sheets u B ” and “ C ” properly filled out, such commis¬ 
sioner or inspector in charge shall forthwith report this 
fact to the Commissioner-General of Immigration, and 
thereafter the Secretary of Commerce and Labor will, 
without further notice and during such period as he shall 
determine, exercise his right under section 21 to employ 
suitable persons to accompany to their final destinations 
aliens deported on a vessel of such steamship company 
requiring special care and attention. Instructions as to 
compensation of such attendants, their mode of travel, 
their right of access to the alien during the ocean voyage, 
and other necessary matters will be given in each case as 
it arises. 

Rule 38 . Deportation , where to. —The deportation of To be to 
aliens as prescribed in Rules 30 to 36 hereof shall be tOpJj a t n ; soceanic 
the foreign trans-Atlantic or trans-Pacific port from 
which such aliens embarked for the United States; or, if 
such embarkation was for foreign contiguous territory, 
to the foreign port at which they embarked for such con¬ 
tiguous territory. (Sec. 35.) 

"Rule 39 . Deportation by consent .—Any alien who has of p u b l i c 
been lawfully landed, but who has become a public charge su bseq'uently 
from subsequently arising physical inability to earn a arIsin s causes; 
living, may, by consent of the alien and with the approval 


64 


RULES RELATING TO TRANSIT. 


of the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, be Deportation: 

deported within one year from date of landing at the 

expense of the immigrant fund: Provided , That such 

alien is delivered to the immigration officers at a desig- 1)0 ^u ,ense ’ h °w 

nated port free of charge; and the charges incurred for 

the care and treatment of any such alien in any public 

or charitable institution from the date of notification to 

an officer of the Bureau until the expiration of one year 

after landing may be paid from the immigrant fund at 

fixed rates agreed upon. 

RULES RELATING TO TRANSIT. 


Rule 40. Aliens in transit .—Every alien seeking a 
landing for the purpose of proceeding directly through 
the United States to a foreign country shall be examined, 
and, if found to be a member of any one of the excluded 
classes, shall be refused permission to land, in the same 
manner as though he intended to remain in the United 
States. Cases where a refusal of the privilege would 
entail exceptional hardship may be reported to the Secre¬ 
tary for a special ruling. 

Rule 41. Aliens in transit , head tax for .— (a) No alien 
desiring admission at a port of the United States for the 
professed purpose of proceeding directly therefrom to 
foreign territory shall be permitted to land thereat ex¬ 
cept after deposit with the collector of customs at said 
port, by the master or owner of the vessel or by a repre¬ 
sentative of any other mode of transportation by which 
such alien is brought, of the amount of the head tax 
(four dollars) prescribed by section 1 of the Immigration 
Act, said amount to be refunded upon proof satisfactory 
to the immigration officer in charge at the port of arrival 
that said alien has passed by direct and continuous jour¬ 
ney through and out of the United States within thirty 
days from the date of admission, proof of such departure 
to be furnished within sixty days from the date of admis¬ 
sion. Special deposits of head tax on account of aliens 
in transit will, at the expiration of sixty days from the 
date of admission, be covered into the Treasury, as head 
tax, the cases in which proof of departure is received 
after the expiration of such period to be reported to the 
Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization for special 
authorization, under the provision incorporated in the 
legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act ap¬ 
proved February 3, 1005. 

(b) All aliens of the taxable class desiring to proceed 
in transit through the United States from the Dominion 
of Canada shall be required to furnish to the examining 
officer or officers guaranty of payment of head tax de¬ 
scribed in paragraph (k) of Rule 25 of these regulations. 
If admissible, aliens claiming to be in transit will be 
given certificate Form 523, providing for refund of head 


Transits: 

To be exam¬ 
ined ; 


Cases excep- 
t i o n a 1 hard¬ 
ship to be re¬ 
potted ; 


Head tax 
must be depos¬ 
ited on account 
of; 


Head tax to 
be refunded on 
proof of de¬ 
parture ; 


Head tax to 
be covered into 
Treasury at ex¬ 
piration of 60 
days ; 

IIow then re¬ 
fundable ; 


Head tax on, 
special system 
of collecting 
and refunding 
when from 
Canadian terri¬ 
tory ; 


MISCELLANEOUS RULES. 


65 


tax upon such certificate being properly indorsed by the Transits: 
alien and by the purser of the outgoing trans-Atlantic or 
trans-Pacific steamship upon which the holder of said 
certificate may depart from the United States; or, if the 
alien be passing in transit through the United States 
from one point in Canada to another point in Canada, 
then such indorsement to be made by the conductor of 
the train upon which the holder of the certificate departs 
from the United States. 

(<?) Refund of head tax will be made on aliens of 
the taxable class, arriving at Atlantic or Pacific ports of at'^canadYan 
Canada and desiring to proceed immediately in transit seaports ; 
through the United States, to the transportation line 
responsible for payment of head tax on such aliens, upon 
proof satisfactory to the United States commissioner of 
immigration for Canada that said aliens have passed by 
direct and continuous journey through and out of the 
United States within the time limit specified in this 
rule. 


(d) Even though an alien, being a “ transit passenger, 1 ’. Entering and 

\ / o jLo? lGRvinsf 3 . 1 . same 

enters and leaves the United States at the same port port — refund 
the provisions of this rule shall be applied to his case to account of f ° n 
the same extent, and in the same manner so far as neces¬ 
sary, as though such alien entered at one port and de¬ 
parted through another. In the cases of those entering 
across the Canadian border as transient visitors, however, 

Form No. 569 will be used instead of Form No. 523, 
under the procedure laid down in paragraph (b) hereof. 

( e ) A class of “transit passengers” which requires ^Entering^as 
somewhat different treatment in practice than “ transits ” ferent practice 
as ordinarily understood and “transient visitors,” whose applymg t0; 
cases are covered by the preceding paragraphs hereof, 

consists of aliens visiting the United States as tourists, 
on pleasure or business. With regard to such class, no 
payment or deposit of head tax need be required, if the 
immigration officers at the port of entry are satisfied that 
it is the bona -fide intent of the passenger merely to visit 
or tour the United States. For instance, when an alien 


is in possession of first-class round trip or through trans¬ 
portation, or other circumstances are present, indicating 
with reasonable certainty that the passenger is a tourist, 
deposit should not be required; if doubt exists, he should 
be classed as a “ transit ” or “ transient visitor.” 


MISCELLANEOUS RULES. 

Rule 42. Cattlemen .—It is ordered that all cattlemen cattlemen: 
returning to ports within the United States holding cer- Qf Admission 
tificates duly signed by a commissioner of immigration or 
an immigrant inspector shall be entitled, upon identifi¬ 
cation, to admission into the United States without fur¬ 
ther examination by the immigration officers, to whom 

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66 


MISCELLANEOUS RULES. 


said certificate must be presented and surrendered, which 
certificate must be as follows : 


Form 567. 


Cattlemen's certificate of admission. 


[Stub.] 


Department of Commerce and Labor. 
Immigration Service. 


No_ 

Port of_ 

Date_, 19_ 

Name_ 

Age- 

Native of_ 

Employed by_ 

Of_ 

A cattleman sailing 
on the steamship... 
Surrendered at the 

port of_ 

-, 19- 

Height_ 

Weight_ 

Color of hair_ 

Color of eyes_ 

General remarks_ 


No_ Port of_ , 

_, 19— 

This is to certify that_a native 

of_age_, who is duly 

accredited an employee of- 

sailing on the steamship_ 

_, 19_, is a cattleman from the 

port of_United States of 

America. 

The holder of this certificate will be 
permitted to enter the United States as a 
returning cattleman on presentation of 
this certificate and proper identification by 
the immigration inspector 

Height_ 

Weight_ 

Color of hair_ 

Color of eyes_ 

General remarks_ 


Signature of cattle- j _, 

man: j Commissioner of Immigration. 


Note. —This certificate must be furnished by 
the commissioner of immigration, or immigrant 
inspector, to the steamship company at the port 
of departure. The certificate will be filled in 
by the United States officer and delivered to 
the captain of the vessel upon which the cattle¬ 
man sails, who in turn will deliver the paper 
to the person in whose name it is issued, at the 
foreign port of destination, to enable the cattle¬ 
man to return. Any alteration or erasure of 
this certificate renders it void, and if it is pre¬ 
sented by, any person other than its rightful 
owner it will be taken up and the holder sub¬ 
jected to the inspection required by law. 


Rule 43. Administration of oaths .—The authority to 
administer oaths conferred upon immigration officials 
by section 24 of the Immigration Act is limited to mat¬ 
ters “ touching the right of any alien to enter the United 
States.” When, therefore, such officials are detailed to 
investigate frauds or attempts to defraud the Govern¬ 
ment, or any irregularity or misconduct of any officer or 
agent of the United States, section 183 of the Revised 
Statutes should be relied upon for authority to administer 
oaths to witnesses. 

Rule 44. Posting of immigration acts .—The certificate 
required by section 8 of the act of Congress approved 
March 3, 1893, that copies of the immigration acts have 
been duly posted, shall be filed with the Secretary of 
Commerce and Labor upon the first days of January and 
July of each year. 

Rule 45. Official communications .—Officers employed 
in the administration of the immigration and Chinese- 


Cattlemen: 


Form of cer¬ 
tificate for. 


I in ni i g ration 
officials: 

Administra¬ 
tion of oaths 
by. 


Posting laws: 

Filing cer¬ 
tificate of. 


Official com¬ 
munications : 





































MISCELLANEOUS RULES. 


67 


Telegraph ins': 
Code for. 


Uniforms: 

Officers 


r e 


exclusion laws are notified that all communications to the m " 

Department upon official matters must be addressed to the T9 be s S e n t 
Commissioner-General of Immigration or to the Secre- cha2nl?s° fficial 
tary of Commerce and Labor through official channels. 

Rule 46. Telegraphing. —With the object of reducing 
the expense of telegraphing in connection with the official 
business of the Immigration Service, the telegraphic code 
provided by the Bureau of Immigration and Naturaliza¬ 
tion will be employed to the fullest extent possible. 

Rule 47. Uniforms. —It is hereby ordered that inspec¬ 
tion officers and employees of the Immigration Service 
stationed at ports or places of entry into the United quuedtowear; 
States and elsewhere shall, while on duty, unless other¬ 
wise specially directed in writing , wear uniforms desig¬ 
nated by the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, 
said uniforms to be purchased by the said inspectors and 
employees. 

(a) Uniform Suits: Uniform suits will be made of Particulars 
dark blue cloth. The following are the prescribed styles : t0,uunin ° 

Suits for inspectors and assistant inspectors — Coats .— Suits; 
Double-breasted sack, four buttons on each side, ends cut 
square. Two lower outside pockets, one on upper left 
side and small ticket pocket on right side. All outside 
pockets to have flaps, except upper left-hand pocket. 

Two inside pockets. All pockets to be of liberal size. 

Vests. —Single-breasted, six buttons, collar. Four 
pockets without flaps. Bone buttons. 

Trousers. —Plain, with side pockets, two hip pockets, 
and watch pocket. No stripe. Band back and front on 
inside at bottom. 

Suits for all other officials. —Same as above, except that 
coat shall be single-breasted instead of double-breasted. 

(b) Buttons: The bone buttons upon suits will be of Buttons; 
a special pattern designed to fit brass button shells (de¬ 
tachable) which must be affixed and worn in all cases 

while on duty. Button shells will be forwarded without 
cost upon application to the Bureau. 

(c) Caps: Contract has been made for uniform caps, caps; 
which must be paid for by the employees, the cost per cap 
being two dollars. If money order for this sum is for¬ 
warded to the Bureau, through official channels, full name 

and title of employee and size of cap wanted being stated, 
the same will be ordered sent direct to purchaser, express 
charges collect. The winter cap is made of blue cloth and 
the summer cap of black silk. Unless otherwise speci¬ 
fied, blue cloth cap will be furnished. 

(d) Cap Insignia : Caps will be provided with appro- cap insignia; 
priate insignia and lettering without charge to employees, 

but orders must be placed through the Bureau in every 
instance. 

(e) Collar Insignia: Inspectors in charge of stations, 
or of the various divisions at the principal ports of 
entry, will be designated by an appropriate legend worn 


Collar insig¬ 
nia ; 


68 


MISCELLANEOUS RULES. 


Uniforms: on both sides of the front of the coat collar. These 

concerning— rs legends will be worked in gold letters upon blue cloth, 
and may be obtained free of cost upon application to 
the Bureau. The cloth strips will be attached to the coat 
collars with hooks and eyes, so that the}^ may readily be 
removed. 

serviceinsig- (/) Service Insignia: Immigrant and Chinese in- 
Dia; spectors one year in the service may be designated by a 

strip of gold braid upon the top of the cuff of the left coat 
sleeve 2 inches from the bottom of the sleeve and extend¬ 
ing halfway around it. An additional strip may be 
added one-fourth inch higher than its predecessor for each 
year’s completed service up to five years, when a small 
gold star may be worn in lieu of the braid, which should 
then be removed. For each year from five to nine, in- 
elusive, a strip of gold braid may be added. Ten years 
continuous service mav be indicated bv two stars, and so 
on. The equipments needed to comply with this require¬ 
ment can be secured without charge upon application to 
the Bureau, the full name and exact service of the em¬ 
ployee being stated. Insignia is issued to inspectors only. 
The length of service is reckoned from the date of original 
appointment as inspector, and must not include prior 
service in other capacities. In making request for insig¬ 
nia, give date of original appointment as inspector, or if 
at present wearing insignia, describe same and give date 
on which the last prior addition thereto was received 
from the Bureau. 

Seasons; ( g ) Seasons : The time of changing from one weight 

of uniform to another will be governed by the change of 
seasons at the various stations of employees. Officers 
stationed in Hawaii and Porto Pico may wear white duck 
uniforms and caps, insignia for the latter to be procured 
free of cost upon application to the Bureau. 

Light-weight (h) Light-Weight Uniforms: Officers and employees 
uniforms; stationed at places where the climate is too warm to admit 
of comfort in wearing the regular summer uniform may 
have their uniforms made of light material suited to the 
locality, subject to the stipulation that the color and style 
shall conform to the requirements of paragraph (a) 
hereof. The special buttons required to fit brass shells 
may be procured from the Bureau. 

Inspections; (?* ) Inspections: Commissioners of immigration and 
inspectors in charge will make reports to the Bureau on 
the first days of January and July regarding the condi¬ 
tion of each part of the uniform of every employee under 
their respective jurisdictions, each portion of every uni¬ 
form being graded as excellent, good, fair, or bad, as the 
case may be. Form 596 will be used in making these 
reports, and if any reports showing the condition to be 
“ bad ” are made, the steps that have been taken to correct 
this condition should be noted. 


MISCELLANEOUS RULES. 


69 


(j) New Appointees : Officers having charge of immi¬ 
gration stations, districts, or ports will require employees 
newly appointed and ordered to report to them for duty 
to provide themselves with standard uniforms within 
thirty days from the date of assignment to duty, and will 
see that the full uniform is worn by all employees, as 
herein provided. 

Rule 48. For convenience in enforcing both the immi¬ 
gration and the Chinese-exclusion laws, the territory 
within which immigration officials are located is divided 
into districts, under the jurisdiction of commissioners of 
immigration or inspectors in charge, numbered, defined, 
and with headquarters fixed, as follows: 


Dist. 

No. 

Title of officer. 

Location of head¬ 
quarters. 

Extent of districts. 

1 

Commissioner of im¬ 
migration. 

Montreal, P. Q., 
Canada. 

Canadian border and Canadian 
seaports. 

2 

Commissioner of im¬ 
migration. 

Boston, Mass. 

New England States, including 
port of Boston and subports of 
Portland and New Bedford. 

3 

Commissioner of im¬ 
migration. 

Chinese inspector in 
charge. 

Ellis Island, New 
York Harbor. 

17 State street, 
New York, N,Y. 

New York and New Jersey; im¬ 
migration matters only. 

New York and New Jersey; Chi¬ 
nese matters only. 

4 

Commissioner of im¬ 
migration. 

Philadelphia, Pa.. 

Pennsylvania, Delaware, and 
West Virginia; port of Philadel¬ 
phia and substations of Pitts¬ 
burg, Chester, and Wilmington. 

5 

Commissioner of im¬ 
migration. 

Baltimore, Md.... 

Maryland and District of Colum¬ 
bia; port of Baltimore and sub¬ 
ports of Annapolis and Wash¬ 
ington. 

6 

Inspector in charge .. 

Norfolk, Va. 

Virginia, North Carolina, and 
South Carolina; port of Norfolk 
and subports of Newport News, 
Wilmington, and Charleston. 

7 

Inspector in charge .. 

Tampa, Fla. 

Georgia, Florida, and Alabama; 
port of Tampa and subports of 
Savannah, Brunswick, Jackson¬ 
ville, Miami, Key West, Pensa¬ 
cola, and Mobile. 

8 

Commissioner of im¬ 
migration. 

New Orleans, La.. 

Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, 
and Tennessee; port of New Or¬ 
leans and subports of Gulfport 
and Pascagoula. 

9 

Inspector in charge .. 

Galveston, Tex... 

The port of Galveston and sub¬ 
ports of Port Arthur and Corpus 
Christi, Tex. The territory 
bounded on the north and east 
by the Louisiana-Texas border 
and the Gulf of Mexico; on the 
west by the westerly bounda¬ 
ries of the following counties in 
Texas: Shelby, Nacogdoches, 
Angelina, Poik, San Jacinto, 
Montgomery, Harris, FortBend, 
Wharton, Jackson, Victoria, 
Refugio, San Patricio, and Nue¬ 
ces; and on the south by the 
southerly boundary of Nueces 
County, Tex. 

10 

Inspector in charge .. 

Cleveland, Ohio.. 

Ohio and Kentucky; substations 
at Toledo and Columbus. 

11 

Inspector in charge .. 

Chicago, Ill. 

Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and 
Wisconsin. 

12 

Inspector in charge .. 

Minneapolis, 

Minn. 

Minnesota and North and South 
Dakota. 

13 

Inspector in charge .. 

St. Louis, Mo. 

Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Kan¬ 
sas, and Oklahoma. 

14 

Inspector in charge .. 

Denver, Colo. 

Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah; 
substation at Salt Lake City. 


Uniforms: 

P articulars 
concerning — 

New ap¬ 
pointees. 


Districts: 

Number ; 
Official in 
charge; 

Headquar¬ 
ters ; 

Extent. 



















70 


MISCELLANEOUS RULES. 


Dist. 

No. 

Title of officer. 

Location of head¬ 
quarters. 

15 

Inspector in charge... 

Helena,Mont. 

16 

Commissioner of im¬ 
migration. 

Seattle, Wash. 

17 

Inspector in charge... 

Portland, Oreg ... 

18 

Commissioner of im¬ 
migration. 

San Francisco,Cal. 

20 

Inspector in charge... 

Ketchikan, Alaska 

21 

Commissioner of im¬ 
migration. 

San Juan, P. R_ 

22 

Inspection in charge.. 

Honolulu, Hawaii 

23 

Supervising inspector. 

El Paso, Tex. 


Extent of districts. 


Montana and Idaho; Substation 
at Havre, Mont. 

Washington; port of Seattle and 
subports of Tacoma, Port Town¬ 
send, and Olympia; substations 
of Spokane and Walla Walla. 

Oregon; port of Portland and sub¬ 
port of Astoria. 

Northern California and Nevada: 
port of San Francisco. 

Alaska; port of Ketchikan and 
substations of Skagway and 
Nome. 

Porto Rico; port of San Juan and 
subport of Ponce. 

Territory of Hawaii, including all 
ports. 

Texas, except portion comprising 
district number 9; New Mexico, 
and Arizona; port of El Paso, 
subports of Nogales, Douglas, 
laeo, Del Rio, Eagle Pass, Lare¬ 
do, Hidalgo, and Brownsville; 
substationsof San Antonio, Tuc¬ 
son, and Fort Worth. 

Southern California; port of San 
Diego and substations of Los 
Angeles and Andrade. 


given certifi 
cate ; 


Rule 40. In furtherance of the requirement of section 
13 of the immigration act, that the groups in which aliens 
are listed shall be u convenient,” transportation companies 
are directed, so far as practicable, to assemble or group 
together all aliens coming from the same locality. 

Hawaii Ric ° and K ,l l e 50. Inspection and entry of aliens into the main¬ 
land of the United States from foreign countries, through 
Porto Rican or Hawaiian territory, under the Immigra¬ 
tion Act, will be accomplished in accordance with the fol¬ 
lowing provisions: 

Aliens arriv- (<?) All aliens arriving in Porto Rico or Hawaii destined 
amined a nji to the mainland of the United States shall be inspected 
at the time of arrival and be given a certificate of the 
form set forth below. The holders of such certificate, 
duly signed by the United States commissioner of immi¬ 
gration at San Juan, or by the inspector in charge at 
Honolulu, shall be entitled to admission to the United 
States at any one of the various ports of entry without 
further examination by the United States immigration 
Surrender of officers as to their right to enter, upon their identification 
and surrender of such certificate to such officials and upon 
payment of head tax. 

(b) Aliens manifested in good faith to Porto Rico or 
Hawaii, who shall reside there for a time, and who subse¬ 
quently desire to proceed to the United States, shall, upon 
application to the commissioner of immigration at San 
Juan or to the inspector in charge at Honolulu, be fur¬ 
nished with the certificate herein referred to, attesting 
their previous examination. 

( c) Failure to present the said certificate shall be 
deemed presumptive evidence that examination has not 


H o w 
cured ; 


p r o 


What certifi 
cate denotes ; 




















MISCELLANEOUS RULES. 


71 


occurred in Porto Eico or Hawaii, and the alien shall b© an * 0 ji£* a H? IC0 
arrested in the manner provided by sections 20 and 21 of 
the Immigration Act, and deported, unless he shows that Effect of faii- 
his presence in the country is lawful or that his residence certificate? 1116 
in Porto Eico or Hawaii or the mainland, or both, has ex¬ 
ceeded the period of three years. 

(d ) Head tax is not to be collected in the cases of aliens Head tax not 
who arrived in Porto Eico or Hawaii prior to July 1,1907, collectlbl< ‘ ; 

at which time the Act of February 20, 1907, took effect. 

( e ) The certificate shall be in the following form: 

Alien certificate—Insular territory. Form of cer- 

Form 546. ‘ No._tifleate. 

Department of Commerce and Labor, 

Immigration Service, 

Port of _,_,_, 191 _ 

This is to certify that_, a native of_, who ar¬ 
rived at the port of_per steamship_, on the_, 

19 _, has been duly inspected and registered, and will he admitted 

into the United States upon proper identification and payment of 
head tax, and surrender of this certificate to any immigration 
officer at a designated port of entry. 

The description of the holder is as follows: Age_; height 

_; weight_; color of hair_; color of eyes_. 

Remarks (note destination, etc.) :_ 

(Name) (Title) 

Surrendered at_to Inspector_,-, 191— 

(/) Special material facts should be noted on the back of the 
certificate with proper reference thereto on the face. 

Dan’l J. Keefe, 

Commissioner-General of Immigration. 

Approved July 12, 1910. 

Benj. S. Cable, 

Acting Secretary. 





























































































































































APPENDIX. 


LAWS NOT REPEALED OR REENACTED BY THE IMMIGRA¬ 
TION ACT OF FEBRUARY 20. 1907. 


ACT OF AUGUST 3, 1882. 

AN ACT to regulate immigration. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa¬ 
tives of the United States of America in Congress assem¬ 
bled, That there shall be levied, collected, and paid a Hoad tax: 
duty of fifty cents for each and every passenger not a Amount; 
citizen of the United States who shall come by steam or 
sail vessel from a foreign port to any port within the 
United States. The said duty shall be paid to the col- y to W wnom 
lector of customs of the port to which such passenger paid, within 24 
shall come, or if there be no collector at such port, then Jiya 1 ! 8 ; aftei ar 
to the collector of customs nearest thereto, by the master, 
owner, agent, or consignee of every such vessel, within 
twenty-four hours after the entry thereof into such port. 

The money thus collected shall be paid into the United To constitute 
States Treasury and shall constitute a fund to be called fund? 11 * r a u 
the immigrant fund and shall be used, under the direc¬ 
tion of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, to defray 
the expense of regulating immigration under this act 
and for the care of immigrants arriving in the United 
States, for the relief of such as are in distress, and for 
the general purposes and expenses of carrying this act 
into effect. The duty imposed by this section shall, be a .How coiiec- 
lien upon the vessels which shall bring such passengers tIon enforced - 
into the United States, and shall be a debt in favor of 
the United States against the owner or owners of such 
vessels, and the payment of such duty may be enforced 
by any legal or equitable remedy: Provided ', That no 
greater sum shall be expended for the purposes herein¬ 
before mentioned, at any port, than shall have been col¬ 
lected at such port.® 

* * * * * 

Approved August 3, 1882 (22 Stat., 214). 


0 See section 1, act February 20, 1907, and Rules 1, 2, and 3. 

73 





74 


ACTS OF 1885 AND 1888. 


Contract 
labor: 

Contracts 
for alien labor 
declared void. 


ACT OF FEBRUARY 26, 1885. 

AN ACT to prohibit the importation and immigration of foreigners 
and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the 
United States, its Territories, and the District of Columbia. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa¬ 
tives of the United States of America in Congress assem¬ 
bled, * * * 

Sec. 2. That all contracts or agreements, express or im¬ 
plied, parol or special, which may hereafter be made by 
and between aii}^ person, company, partnership, or cor¬ 
poration, and any foreigner or foreigners, alien or aliens, 
to perform labor or service or having reference to the per¬ 
formance of labor or service by any person in the United 
States, its Territories, or the District of Columbia, pre¬ 
vious to the migration or importation of the person or 
persons whose labor or service is contracted for into the 
United States, shall be utterly void and of no effect.* 1 
* * * * * 

Approved February 26, 1885 (28 Stat., 332). 


ACT OF OCTOBER 19, 1888. 

AN ACT making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appro¬ 
priations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, 
and for other purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa¬ 
tives of the United States of America in Congress assem¬ 
bled, * * * 

Sec. 1 . * * * That the act approved February 

twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, entitled 
“An Act to prohibit the importation and migration of 
foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to per¬ 
form labor in the United States, its Territories, and the 
District of Columbia,” be, and the same is hereby, 
amended so as to authorize the Secretary of Commerce 
and Labor to pay to an informer who furnishes original 
information that the law has been violated, such a share 
of the penalties recovered as he may deem reasonable and 
just, not exceeding fifty per centum, where it appears that 
the recovery was had in consequence of the information 
thus furnished. 

T *r •T* «t* 

Approved October 19, 1888 (25 Stat., 566). 


a See sections 2, 4, 5, and 6, act of February 20, 1907. 




ACTS OF 1891 AND 1893. 


75 


ACT OF MARCH 3, 1891. 

AN ACT in amendment to tlie various acts relative to immigra¬ 
tion and the importation of aliens under contract or agreement 
to perform labor. 


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa¬ 
tives of the United States of America in Congress assem¬ 
bled, * * * 

Sec. 7. That the office of superintendent of immigra- s u p erintend- 
tion is hereby created and established, and the President, Sin s of ,mmiaTa ' 
by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, is an- office ere- 
thorized and directed to appoint such officer, whose salary a salary fixed, 
shall be four thousand dollars per annum, payable 
monthly. The superintendent of immigration shall be an 
officer in the Department of Commerce and Labor, under 
the control and supervision of the Secretary of Commerce 
and Labor, to whom he shall make annual reports in 
writing of the transactions of his office, together with 
such special reports, in writing, as the Secretary of Com¬ 
merce and Labor shall require. The Secretary shall pro¬ 
vide the superintendent with a suitably furnished office in 
the city of Washington, and with such books of record 
and facilities for the discharge of the duties of his office 
as may be necessary. He shall have a chief clerk at a 
salary of two thousand dollars per annum, and two first- 
class clerks.® 


* 


* 


* 


Approved March 3, 1891 (26 Stat., 1084). 


ACT OF FEBRUARY 15, 1893. 

AN ACT granting additional quarantine powers and imposing 
additional duties upon tlie Marine-Hospital Service. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa¬ 
tives of the United States of America in Congress assem¬ 
bled, * * * 

Sec. 7. That whenever it shall be shown to the satis- Quarantine: 
faction of the President that by reason of the existence President 
of cholera, or other infectious or contagious diseases, milntvy 'pVwer 
a foreign country there is serious danger of the introduc- im ‘ 

tion of the same into the United States, and that not¬ 
withstanding the quarantine defense this danger is so 
increased by the introduction of persons or property from 
such country that a suspension of the right to introduce 
the same is demanded, in the interest of the public health, 
the President shall have power to prohibit, in whole or 
in part, the introduction of persons and property from 

a gee section 1, act March 2, 1895, and section 22, act February 
20, 1907. 





76 


ACTS OF 1893 AND 1894. 


Certificates: 

Required of 
steamship com¬ 
panies re post¬ 
ing laws in 
foreign offices; 


Penalty for 
failure. 


Commissioners 
of immigration: 

Appointed by 
President. 


such countries or places as he shall designate and for 
such period of time as he may deem necessary. 

* * * * * 

Approved February 15, 1893 (27 Stat., 449). 


ACT OF MARCH 3, 1893. 

AN ACT to facilitate the enforcement of the immigration and 
contract-labor laws of the United States. 

Be it enacted by tlxe Senate and House of Representa¬ 
tives of the United States of America in Congress assem¬ 
bled, * * * 

Sec. 8. That all steamship or transportation companies, 
and other owners of vessels, regularly engaged in trans¬ 
porting alien immigrants to the United States, shall twice 
a year file a certificate with the Secretary of Commerce 
and Labor that they have furnished to be kept conspicu¬ 
ously exposed to view in the office of each of their agents 
in foreign countries authorized to sell emigrant tickets, 
a copy of the law of March third, eighteen hundred and 
ninety-one, and of all subsequent laws of this country 
relative to immigration, printed in large letters, in the 
language of the country where the copy of the law is to 
be exposed to view, and that they have instructed their 
agents to call the attention thereto of persons contem¬ 
plating emigration before selling tickets to them; and in 
case of the failure for sixty days of any such company or 
any such owners to file such a certificate, or in case they 
file a false certificate, they shall jiay a fine of not exceed¬ 
ing five hundred dollars, to be recovered in the proper 
United States court, and said fine shall also be a lien 
upon any vessel of said company or owners found within 
the United States.® 

***** 

Approved March 3, 1893 (27 Stat., 569). 


ACT OF AUGUST 18, 1894. 

AN ACT making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the 
Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen 
hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa¬ 
tives of the United States of America in Congress assem¬ 
bled, * * * 

The commissioners of immigration at the several ports 
shall be appointed by the President, by and with the 
advice and consent of the Senate, to hold their offices 


a See Rule 44 for time of filing. 






ACTS OF 1895 AND 1900. 


77 


for the term of four years, unless sooner removed, and 
until their successors are appointed; and nominations for 
such offices shall be made to the Senate by the President 
as soon as practicable after the passage of this act.® 

Approved August 18, 1894 (28 Stat., 372). 


ACT OF MARCH 2, 1895. 


AN ACT making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and 
judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal.year ending 
June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other 
purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa¬ 
tives of the United States of America in Conqress assem¬ 
bled, * * * 

BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION. 


That the Superintendent of Immigration shall here¬ 
after be designated as Commissioner-General of Immi¬ 
gration, and, in addition to his other duties, shall have 
charge, under the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, of 
the administration of the alien contract-labor laws, etc.® 

Approved March 2, 1895 (28 Stat., 764). 


Commissioner- 
General : 

Title cre¬ 
ated ; 

Administra¬ 
tion contract- 
labor laws 
placed under. 


ACT OF JUNE 6, 1900. 

AN ACT making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the 
Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen 
hundred and one, and for other purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa¬ 
tives of the United States of America in Congress assem¬ 
bled, * * * and hereafter the Commissioner-General 

of Immigration, in addition to his other duties, shall have ck inese-ex- 
cliarge of the administration of the Chinese-exclusion placed under!* w 
law and of the various acts regulating immigration into 
the United States, its Territories, and the District of Co¬ 
lumbia, under the supervision and direction of the Secre¬ 
tary of Commerce and Labor. 

Approved June 6, 1900 (31 Stat., 611). 


® See section 7, act March 3, 1891, and section 22, act February 
20, 1907. 





78 


ACTS OF 1902 AND 1905. 


ACT OF APRIL 29, 1902. 


AN ACT to prohibit the coming into and to regulate the residence 
within the United States, its Territories, and all territory under 
its jurisdiction, and the District of Columbia, of Chinese and 
persons of Chinese descent. 


hibitors at. 


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa¬ 
tives of the United States of America in Congress assem¬ 
bled, * * * 

>osmons* nd ex ’ Sec. ^ That nothing in the provisions of this Act or 
T ° ns ‘ . any other Act shall be construed to prevent, hinder, or 
favor of ex- restrict any foreign exhibitor, representative, or citizen 
of any foreign nation, or the holder, who is a citizen of 
any foreign nation, of any concession or privilege from 
any fair or exposition authorized by Act of Congress 
from bringing into the United States, under contract, 
such mechanics, artisans, agents, or other employees, na¬ 
tives of their respective foreign countries, as they or any 
of them may deem necessary for the purpose of making 
preparation for installing or conducting their exhibits 
or of preparing for installing or conducting any business 
authorized or permitted under or by virtue of or pertain¬ 
ing to any concession or privilege which may have been 
or may be granted by any said fair or exposition in con¬ 
nection with such exposition, under such rules and regu¬ 
lations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may 
prescribe, both as to the admission and return of such 
person or persons. 

$ $ $ $ $ 

Approved April 29, 1902 (32 Stat., part 1, p. 176). 


ACT OF FEBRUARY 3, 1905. 


AN ACT making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and 
judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending 
June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six. and for other purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa¬ 
tives of the United States of America in Congress assem¬ 
bled, * * * 

BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION. 


* * * * Jjc 

Head tax: Provided, That the Commissioner-General of Immigra- 

Refund of, tion, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and 
ousiy collected. Labor, shall have power to refund head tax heretofore 


and hereafter collected under section one of the immigra¬ 
tion Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and 
three, upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively 
that such collection was erroneously made.® 

Approved February 3, 1905 (33 Stat., part 1, p. 684). 


a See Rules 1 and 41, 







ACTS OF 1905 AND 1906. 


79 


ACT OF FEBRUARY 6, 1905. 


AN ACT to amend an Act approved July first, nineteen hundred 
and two, entitled “An Act temporarily to provide for the admin¬ 
istration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine 
Islands, and for other purposes,” and to amend an Act approved 
March eighth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act tem¬ 
porarily to provide revenue for the Philippine Islands, and for 
other purposes,” and to amend an Act approved March second, 
nineteen hundred and three, entitled “An Act to establish a 
standard of value and to provide for a coinage system in the 
Philippine Jslands,” and to provide for the more efficient ad¬ 
ministration of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and 
for other purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa¬ 
tives of the United States of America in Congress assem¬ 
bled, * * * 

Sec. 6. That the immigration laws of the United States Philippine is- 
in force in the Philippine Islands shall be administered lands: 
by the officers of the general government thereof desig- immigration 
mated by appropriate legislation of said government, and^cVnecuon 
all moneys collected under said laws as duty or head tax head tax there¬ 
on alien immigrants coming into said islands shall not be in * 
covered into the general fund of the Treasury of the 
United States, but shall be paid into the treasury of said 
islands to be used and expended for the government and 
benefit of said islands. 

jfc sj: sfc 

Approved February 6, 1905 (33 Stat., 689). 


ACT OF MARCH 3, 1905. 


AN ACT making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the 
Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen 
hundred and six, and for other purposes. 


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa¬ 
tives of the United States of America in Congress assem¬ 
bled, * * * 

Provided, That the annual subscriptions for publica¬ 
tions for use in the immigration service at large may be 
paid in advance. 

Approved March 3,1905 (33 Stat., part 1, p. 1156). 


Subscriptions: 

To be paid in 
advance. 


ACT OF JUNE 29, 1906. 

AN ACT to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturaliza¬ 
tion, and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of 
aliens throughout the United States. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa¬ 
tives of the United States of America in Congress assem¬ 
bled, That the designation of the Bureau of Immigra- Bureau of im- 
tion in the Department of Commerce and Labor is hereby migratlon ' 




80 


ACT OF 1907. 


Bureau of im- c h an g e( j the “ Bureau of Immigration and Naturaliza- 
mi Tme°changed tion,” which said Bureau, under the direction and control 
t( l rauon ° f an m d Secretary of Commerce and Labor, in addition to 

Naturalization” the duties now provided by law, shall have charge of all 
matters concerning the naturalization of aliens. That it 
shall be the duty of the said Bureau to provide, for use at 
the various immigration stations throughout the United 
States, books of record, wherein the commissioners of im¬ 
migration shall cause a registry to be made in the case 
of each alien arriving in the United States from and after 
the passage of this Act of the name, age, occupation, per¬ 
sonal description (including height, complexion, color of 
hair and eves), the place of birth, the last residence, the 
intended place of residence in the United States, and the 
date of arrival of said alien, and, if entered through a 
port, the name of the vessel in which he comes. And it 
shall be the duty of said commissioners of immigration 
to cause to be granted to such alien a certificate of such 
registry, with the particulars thereof.® 

* * * * * 

Approved June 29, 1906 (34 Stat., part 1, p. 596). 


ACT OF MARCH 2, 1907. 


Passports: 


When issued 
to persons not 
citizens ; 


Not valid in 
country of 
alien's former 
domicile. 


Expatriation: 

How effect¬ 
ed ; 


AN ACT in reference to the expatriation of citizens and their 

protection abroad. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa¬ 
tives of the United States of America in Congress assem¬ 
bled, That the Secretary of State shall be authorized, 
in his discretion, to issue passports to persons not citi¬ 
zens of the United States as follows: Where any person 
has made a declaration of intention to become such a 
citizen as provided by law and has resided in the United 
States for three years a passport may be issued to him 
entitling him to the protection of the Government in any 
foreign country: Provided, That such passport shall not 
be valid for more than six months and shall not be re¬ 
newed, and that such passport shall not entitle the holder 
to the protection of this Government in the country of 
which he was a citizen prior to making such declaration 
of intention. 

Sec. 2. That any American citizen shall be deemed to 
have expatriated himself when he has been naturalized 
in any foreign state in conformity with its laws, or when 
he has taken an oath of allegiance to any foreign state. 

When any naturalized citizen shall have resided for 
two years in the foreign state from which he came, or for 


° For naturalization laws and regulations drawn thereunder, see 
pamphlet entitled “ Naturalization Laws and Regulations.” 






ACT OF 1907. 


81 


five years in any other foreign state it shall be presumed 
that he has ceased to be an American citizen, and the place 
of his general abode shall be deemed his place of residence 
during said years: Provided , however , That such pre¬ 
sumption may be overcome on the presentation of satis¬ 
factory evidence to a diplomatic or consular officer of the 
United States, under such rules and regulations as the 
Department of State may prescribe: And provided also , 
That no American citizen shall be allowed to expatriate 
himself when this country is at war. 

Sec. 3. That any American woman who marries a 
foreigner shall take the nationality of her husband. At 
the termination of the marital relation she may resume 
her American citizenship, if abroad, by registering as an 
American citizen within one year with a consul of the 
United States, or by returning to reside in the United 
States, or, if residing in the United States at the termina¬ 
tion of the marital relation, by continuing to reside 
therein. 

Sec. 4. That any foreign woman who acquires Amer¬ 
ican citizenship by marriage to an American shall be 
assumed to retain the same after the termination of the 
marital relation if she continues to reside in the United 
States, unless she makes formal renunciation thereof 
before a court having jurisdiction to naturalize aliens, 
or if she resides abroad she may retain her citizenship 
by registering as such before a United States consul 
within one year after the termination • of such marital 
relation. 

Sec. 5. That a child born without the United States of 
alien parents shall be deemed a citizen of the United 
States by virtue of the naturalization of or resumption 
of American citizenship by the parent: Provided , That 
such naturalization or resumption takes place during the 
minority of such child: And provided further , That the 
citizenship of such minor child shall begin at the time 
such minor child begins to reside permanently in the 
United States. 

Sec. 6 . That all children born outside the limits of the 
United State who are citizens thereof in accordance with 
the provisions of section nineteen hundred and ninety- 
three of the Revised Statutes of the United States® and 
who continue to reside outside the United States shall, 
in order to receive the protection of this Government, be 
required upon reaching the age of eighteen years to re¬ 
cord at an American consulate their intention to become 


Expatriation: 


How pre¬ 
sumption over¬ 
come. 


Marriage: 

How affects 
status of wo¬ 
man marrying 
foreigner; 


Of foreign 
woman marry¬ 
ing American. 


Minor chil¬ 
dren: 

Born outside 
United States, 
how citizenship 
resumed, and 
when takes ef¬ 
fect ; 


Foreign 
born, citizens 
under sec. 1993, 
R. S. : Assump¬ 
tion of citizen 
ship by. 


° Sec. 1993, Revised Statutes, reads as follows: “All children 
heretofore born or hereafter born out of the limits and jurisdic¬ 
tion of the United States, whose fathers were or may be at the 
time of their birth citizens thereof, are declared to be citizens of 
the United Sta tes; but the rights of citizenship shall not descend 
to children whose fathers never resided in the United States.’’ 

52520°—10-6 




82 


ACT OF 1910. 


Evidence: 

To be filed 
with State De¬ 
partment. 


residents and remain citizens of the United States and 
shall be further required to take the oath of allegiance to 
the United States upon attaining their majority. 

Sec. 7. That duplicates of any evidence, registration, 
or other acts required by this Act shall be filed with the 
Department of State for record. 

Approved March 2, 1907. 


ACT OF MARCH 26, 1910. 

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the immi¬ 
gration of aliens into the United States,” approved February 

twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa¬ 
tives of the United States of America in Congress assem¬ 
bled, That section two of the Act entitled “An Act to 
regulate the immigration of aliens into the United 
States,” approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred 
and seven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 

“ Sec. 2. That the following classes of aliens shall be 
excluded from admission into the United States: All 
idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, epileptics, in¬ 
sane persons, and persons who have been insane within 
five years previous; persons who have had two or more 
attacks of insanity at any time previously; paupers; per¬ 
sons likely to become a public charge; professional beg¬ 
gars; persons afflicted with tuberculosis or with a loath¬ 
some or dangerous contagious disease; persons not com¬ 
prehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes 
who are found to be and are certified by the examining 
surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such 
mental or physical defect being of a nature which may 
affect the ability of such alien to earn a living; persons 
who have been convicted of or admit having committed 
a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral 
turpitude; polygamists, or persons who admit their be¬ 
lief in the practice of polygamy; anarchists, or persons 
who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or 
violence of the Government of the United States, or of 
all government, or of all forms of law, or the assassina¬ 
tion of public officials; prostitutes, or women or girls 
coming into the United States for the purpose of pros¬ 
titution or for any other immoral purpose; persons who 
are supported by or receive in whole or in part the pro¬ 
ceeds of prostitution; persons who procure or attempt 
to bring in prostitutes or women or girls for the purpose 
of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose; per¬ 
sons hereinafter called contract laborers who have been 
induced or solicited to migrate to this country by offers 
or promises of employment or in consequence of agree- 



ACT OF 1910. 


83 


ments, oral, written or printed, expressed or implied, 
to perform labor in this country of any kind, skilled or 
unskilled; those who have been, within one year from the 
date of application for admission to the United States, 
deported as having been induced or solicited to migrate 
as above described; any person whose ticket or passage 
is paid for with the money of another, or who is assisted 
by others to come, unless it is affirmatively and satis¬ 
factorily shown that such person does not belong to one 
of the foregoing excluded classes and that said ticket or 
passage was not paid for by any corporation, associa¬ 
tion, society, municipality, or foreign government, either 
directly or indirectly; all children under sixteen years 
of age unaccompanied by one or both of their parents, 
at the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor 
or under such regulations as he may from time to time 
prescribe: Provided r , That nothing in this Act shall ex¬ 
clude, if otherwise admissible, persons convicted of an 
offense purely political, not involving moral turpitude : 
Provided further , That the provisions of this section re¬ 
lating to the payments for tickets or passage by any 
corporation, association, society, municipality, or foreign 
government shall not apply to the tickets or passage of 
aliens in immediate and continuous transit through the 
United States to foreign contiguous territory: And pro¬ 
vided further , That skilled labor may be imported if 
labor of like kind unemployed can not be found in this 
country: And provided further , That the provisions of 
this law applicable to contract labor shall not be held 
to exclude professional actors, artists, lecturers, singers, 
ministers of any religious denomination, professors for 
colleges or seminaries, persons belonging to any recog¬ 
nized learned profession, or persons employed strictly 
as personal or domestic servants.” 

Sec. 2. That section three of an Act entitled “An Act 
to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United 
States,” approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred 
and seven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 

“ Sec. 3. That the importation into the United States 
of any alien for the purpose of prostitution or for any 
other immoral purpose is hereby forbidden; and who¬ 
ever shall, directly or indirectly, import, or attempt to 
import, into the United States, any alien for the pur¬ 
pose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose, 
or whoever shall hold or attempt to hold any alien for 
any such purpose in pursuance of such illegal importa¬ 
tion, or whoever shall keep, maintain, control, support, 
employ, or harbor in any house or other place, for the 
purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral pur¬ 
pose, in pursuance of such illegal importation, any alien, 
shall, in every such case be deemed guilty of a felony, 
and on conviction thereof be imprisoned not more than 
ten years and pay a fine of not more than five thousand 


84 


ACT OF 1910. 


dollars. Jurisdiction for the trial and punishment of 
the felonies hereinbefore set forth shall be in any dis¬ 
trict to or into which said alien is brought in pursuance 
of said importation by the person or persons accused, 
or in any district in which a violation of any of the fore¬ 
going provisions of this section occur. Any alien who 
shall be found an inmate of or connected with the man¬ 
agement of a house of prostitution or practicing prosti¬ 
tution after such alien shall have entered the United 
States, or who shall receive, share in, or derive benefit 
from any part of the earnings of any prostitute; or who 
is employed by, in, or in connection with any house of 
prostitution or music or dance hall or other place of 
amusement or resort habitually frequented by prostitutes, 
or where prostitutes gather, or who in any way assists, 
protects, or promises to protect from arrest any prosti¬ 
tute, shall be deemed to be unlawfully within the United 
States and shall be deported in the manner provided by 
sections twenty and twenty-one of this Act. That any 
alien who shall, after he has been debarred or deported 
in pursuance of the provisions of this section, attempt 
thereafter to return to or to enter the United States shall 
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be im¬ 
prisoned for not more than two years. Any alien who 
shall be convicted under any of the provisions of this 
section shall, at the expiration of his sentence, be taken 
into custody and returned to the country whence he came, 
or of which he is a subject or a citizen, in the manner 
provided in sections twenty and twenty-one of this Act. 
In all prosecutions under this section the testimony of 
a husband or Avife shall be admissible and competent 
evidence against a wife or husband.” 

Approved March 26, 1910. 


INDEX 




Subject. 

Sec. 

Page. 

A. 

Actors, not excluded. 

2 

6 

Accounting for head tax and 
other receipts. See Rule 3, 

p. 28. 

Admission: 

Aliens in transit. See Transit. 

Cattlemen returning from for¬ 
eign ports. See Cattlemen. 

Canadian ports, from. See 
Canada. 

Canal Zone, from. See Canal 
Zone. 

Cuba, from. See Cuba. 

Diseased wife or minor chil¬ 
dren of domiciled alien. 

37 

19 

Guam, from. See G uam. 
Mexico, from. See Mexico. 
Newfoundland, from. See 
Newfoundland. 

Peace officers of States and 
Territories to immigrant 
stations. 

31 

18 

Philippines, from. See Philip¬ 
pines. 

Porto Rico, from. See Porto 
Rico. 

Rules relating to. 

Under bond. See Bond. 

See also Classes excluded from 
entry; Classes not excluded 
from entry. 

Advance payment for publica¬ 
tions (act Mar. 3,1905). 

Advertising: 

Encouraging immigration by, 
unlawful. 

6 

28,64 

79 

7 

Exception in favor of States 
and Territories. 

6 

7 

Penalties for encouraging im¬ 
migration by. 

5-6 

7 

See also Soliciting. 
Administration of oaths. See 
Rule 43, p. 66. 

Ambassadors. See Diplomatic 
officials. 

Amendments: 

Chinese-exclusion laws not 
amended. 

43 

23 

Navigation act amended. 

42 

22 

Passenger act, sec. 1, not 
amended. 

. 43 

23 

Anarchists: 

Exclusion of. 

2 

5 

Not to be admitted. 

38 

20 

Penalty for assisting to enter.. 

38 

20 

Appeals: 

Board of special inquiry, from 
decision of, to Secretary of 
Commerce and Labor. 

10,25 

9,17 

Dangerous contagious disease, 
alien afflicted with, not 
allowed. 

10 

9 

Decision of board of special 
inquiry, when final. 

10,25 

9,17 

Dissenting member of board 
of special inquiry, by. 

25 

17 

Finality of decision of officers 
unless taken. 

25 

17 

Japanese and Korean laborers, 
in case of. See Rule 21, pp. 
40-42. 

Manner of taking. 

25 

17 


Subject. 


Appeals— Continued. 

Rejections under sec. 10 not 

allowed appeal. 

Sec. 10, not allowed in cases 

rejected under. 

Tuberculosis or dangerous 
contagious disease, alien 
afflicted with, not allowed.. 
See also Rules 5-8,20,pp.29-32, 
39; Evidence. 

Application of immigration act. 
See Rule 4, p. 28. 

Appointments: 

Boards of special inquiry. 

Commissioners of immigration 

(see act of Aug. 18,1894). 

Appointments not altered. 

Immigration Commission. 

Inspectors, clerks, officers, 

employees. 

New Orleans, commissioner of 

immigration at. 

State agents at ports for dis¬ 
tribution of information.... 

Appropriations. See Cost of de¬ 
portation and detention of 
aliens; Immigrant fund. 

Arrest: 

Aliens unlawfully in country.. 
See also Rules 21g, 31-39, pp. 
41, 56-63; Warrants. 

Artists, not excluded. 

Assistance to admitted aliens. 
See Rule 15, p. 38. 

Assisted aliens: 

Exclusion of (see also Anar¬ 
chists). 

In transit not excluded. 

Penalty for assisting importa¬ 
tion of contract laborers. 

Attendants: 

Deported helpless aliens, for.. 
Expenses of. 

See also Rules 12,13b, 35k, 37, 
pp. 36, 37, 60, 62; Guardians 
en voyage. 

Attorneys, appearance in alien 
cases. See Rule 18, pp. 38-39. 

B. 

Beggars, exclusion of. 

Boards of special inquiry: 
Appeal from, by dissenting 
member, to Secretary of 

Commerce and Labor. 

Appointment of, by commis¬ 
sioners . 

Authority of.... 

Challenging decision of. 

Composition of. 

Decis ! on shall be final, when.. 
Detaining aliens for examina¬ 
tion by. 

Hearings before, private. 

Manner of taking appeal by 

dissenting member of. 

See also Rules 5, 6,17, pp. 29- 
31, 38; Oath. 

Bond: 

Arrested aliens, releasing 

under.— 

Bringing suits upon. 


Sec. 


Page. 


10,25 9,17 


10,25 


10 


25 


24 

39 

24 

34 

40 


20-21 


11,21 

11,19,21 


25 

25 

25 

24 

25 
10,25 

24 

25 

25 


20 

26 


9,17 


16 

76 

16 

20 

15 

19 

21 


14 


6 

6 


9,15 

9, 

13,15 


17 

16 

17 

16 

17 

9,17 

16 

17 

17 


14 

17 


85 










































































86 


INDEX 


Subject. 

Sec. 

Page. 

Bond —Continued. 

Commissioner, for Canada, of. 

See Rule 25m, p. 50. 

Forms of, Commissioner-Gen¬ 
eral shall provide. 

22 

15 

In what cases permissible. 

Landing under. 

20,26 

26 

14,17 

17 

Public charges, persons likely 
to become, of. 

26 

17 

See also Rules 6, 20, 35g, pp. 
31-32, 39-40, 60. 

Bureau, changing name to Bu¬ 
reau of Immigration and Nat¬ 
uralization (act June 29,1906)... 


79-80 


c. 

Canada: 

Admission and exclusion, 
Canadian ports. See Rule 
25, p. 47. 

Canadian agreement. See 
Rule 25, p. 47-51. 

Entry and inspection of aliens 
from, rules and contracts for. 
Head tax on aliens from, 
when not to be levied ( see 

Rule 2, p. 27). 

Ports of entry ( see also Rule 24) 
See also Rules 2, 24-25, pp. 27, 
46-51; Manifests, outgoing 
passengers. 

Canal Zone: 

Immigration act applies to.... 

Inspection of aliens from. 

Passports from, not honored, 

when. 

See also Rule 4, p. 28. 

Cattlemen returning from 
foreign ports. See Rule 42, 
p. 65. 

Certificates covering medical 
examination. See Medical 
examination; Cattlemen. 

Charges for care and mainte¬ 
nance. See Cost of detention, 


32 


18 


1 4 

36 - 19 


33 

33 

1 


19 

19 

5 


etc. 

Children: 

Attendant for, when deport¬ 
ed ( see also Attendants). 

Diseased minor children of 

domiciled alien. 

Admission of, for hospital 

treatment. 

Under 16, unaccompanied by 
either parent, exclusion of.. 
See also Rules 5, 9f, 11, 12, 13, 
pp. 29, 33, 36-37. 

Chinese: 

Administration of laws placed 
under charge of Commis¬ 
sioner-General (act June 6, 

1900). 

Exceptions in favor of foreign 
exhibitors at fairs and ex¬ 
positions (act Apr. 29, 

1902). 

Laws relating to, not amended 

Citizens, aliens declaring in¬ 
tention to become, admission 
of diseased wife or minor chil¬ 
dren of. See Children; Wives. 

Citizenship. See Expatriation. 

Classes excluded from entry: 

Anarchists. 

Assisted aliens. 

Beggars, professional. 

Children under 16, unaccom¬ 
panied by one or both par¬ 
ents. 

Contract laborers— 

At time of entry. 

Previously deported 
within 1 year of appli¬ 
cation for entry. 

Criminals. 

Defective persons (mentally 
or physically). 


11 

39 

37 


43 


2 

2 

2 


2 


2 

2 

2 




9 

19 

19 

6 


77 


78 

23 


5 

6 
5 


6 


6 

5 

5 


Subject. 

Sec. 

Page. 

Classes excluded from entry— 
Continued. 

Diseased persons. 

2 

5 

Epileptics. 

2 

5 

Feeble-minded persons. 

2 

5 

Idiots. 

2 

5 

Imbeciles. 

2 

5 

Insanity— 

At time of entry. 

2. 

5 

2 or more attacks previ- 



ous to entry. 

2 

5 

Within 5 years previous 



to entry. 

2 

5 

Paupers. 

2 

5 

Polygamists, etc. 

2 

5 

Procurers of prostitutes. 

2 

6 

Prostitutes, etc. 

2 

5 

Public charges, likely to be... 

2 

5 

See also Rules 4-41, pp. 28-64. 
Classes not excluded from 
entry: 

Actors. 

2 

6 

Artists. 

2 

6 

Assisted aliens in transit (see 


6 

also Transit). 

2 

6 

Lecturers. 

2 

6 

Ministers of the gospel. 

2 

6 

Officials of foreign govern¬ 
ments, their suites, fami¬ 
lies, and guests. 

41 

21 

Persons (otherwise admissi¬ 
ble) convicted of political 
offenses not involving mor¬ 
al turpitude. 

2 

6 

Professional persons. 

2 

6 

Professors of colleges. 

2 

6 

Seamen, when. See Rule 22, 
pp. 42-46. 


0 

Servants,personal or domestic 

2 

6 

Singers. 

2 

6 

Skilled laborers, if labor of 
like kind unemployed can 
not be found.'. 

2 

6 

Classes exempted from pay¬ 
ment of head tax: 

Admissible residents of any 
possession of the United 
States. 

1 

4 

Aliens arriving at Guam, 
Porto Rico, or Mexico. 

1 

5 

Aliens entering country after 
residence of 1 year in Can¬ 
ada, Newfoundland, Cuba, 
or Mexico. 

1 

4 

Aliens in transit through the 
United States (see also 
Transit). 

1 

4 

Aliens, lawfully admitted, in 
transit from one part of the 
United States to another 
through foreign contiguous 
territory. 

1 

4 

Excluded aliens. 

1-2 

4-6 

Officials of foreign govern¬ 
ments, their suites, etc. 

41 

21 

Seamen, bona fide. See Rule 
22d, p. 44. 

See also Rules, 1-3, pp. 26-28. 
Clearance papers, not to be 
granted to vessels, when. 

9,12 

8,10 

Clerks, appointment of. 

24 

15 

Clergymen, not excluded. 

2 

6 

Collection of head tax. See 
Rules 1, 3, pp. 26, 28. 



Collection of penalties under 
sec. 9, method of (see also Rule 
28, p. 53. 

9 

8 

Collectors of customs: 

Fines under sec. 9 paid to. 

9 

8 

Head tax paid to (see also 
Rules 1-3, pp. 26-28). 

1 

4 

List of outgoing passengers to 
be deposited with. 

12 

10 

Not to grant clearance papers, 
when. 

9,12 

8,10 

Payments to, of penalty for 
improper manifests... 

15 

11 



























































































INDEX. 


87 


Subject. 

Sec. 

Page. 

Subject. 

Sec. 

Page. 

Commissioner-General: 



Convicts. See Criminals; Politi- 



Creation of office (acts Mar. 3, 



cal offenses. 



1891, and Mar. 2, 1895). 


75-77 

Cost of dfcoftattoiv nFTFw. 



To detail officers abroad. 

22 

15 

TION, AND TREATMENT OF 



To detail officers to investi- 



aliens: 



gate public charges. 

22 

15 

When borne by steamship 



To make contracts for relief of 



companies_1..*.. 

19 

13 

aliens. 

22 

15 

When one-half paid by other 



To make rules and contracts 



persons. 

20 

14 

for inspection on land 



When paid from immigrant 



boundaries (see also Duties). 

32 

18 

fund.“. 

19-20 

13-14 

Commissioners of immigration: 



See also Rules 13c, 14, 15, 16, 



Appointment of (act Aug. 18, 



35k, 36, 39, pp. 37, 38, 60, 61, 



1894). 


76 

63. 



Appointment of, not altered.. 

24 

16 

Courts, circuit and district, ju- 



Appointment of, at New Or- 



risdiction of (see also Suits). 

29 

18 

leans. 

34 

19 

Crimes. See Jurisdiction. 



Bond of, of Canada. See Rule 



Criminals, exclusion of. 

2 

5 

25m, p. 50. 



Cuba, head tax on aliens from, 



Duties of. 

23 

15 

when not to be levied (see also 



To appoint boards of special 



Rules 2c, 2d, p. 27). 

1 

4 

inquiry. 

25 

16 

Tk 



Communications, official, send- 



il. 



ing of. See Rule 45, p. 66. 



Deportation: 



Compensation, officers, inspect- 



Aliens in United States in vio- 



ors, clerks, employees, how 



lation of law, within 3 years. 

3,20-21 

7,14 

fixed. 

24 

15 

Aliens unlawfully landed 

18 

13 

Compromising suits (see Suits)... 

27 

18 

By vessel bringing. 

19 

13 

Contagious diseases: 



Cost of, when borne by 



Decision of board of special 



steamship companies... 

19 

13 

inquiry final, when. 

10 

9 

Penalty for failure to de- 



Detailing surgeons to foreign 



port. 

19 

13 

countries. 

22 

15 

Attendants for deported per- 



Exclusion of persons afflicted 



sons see also Attendants).. 

11,21 

9,15 

with. 

2,10 

59 

Contiguous territory, to, when 



Hospital treatment, admis- 



(see also Rule 38, p. 63). 

35 

19 

sion for. 

19,37 

13,19 

Cost of, etc. See Cost of de- 



Penalty for bringing to 



portation, etc. 



United States. 

9 

8 

Penalty against vessel refus- 



See also Rules 4 to 39, pp. 28- 



ing to deport aliens. 

21 

14 

63; Hospital treatment; 



Prostitutes, within 3 years.... 

3 

7 

Medical examination; Tu- 



Public charges. See Rules 



berculosis. 



31-39, pp. 57-63. 



Contiguous territory: 



Stay of, notice of appeal to 



Deportation to, where em- 



act as. See Rule 7, p. 32. 



barkation was from (see also 



Surreptitiously, persons en- 



Rule 38, p. 63. 

35 

19 

tering, of. 

8,18, 

8,13, 

Payment of head tax on aliens 




20,21,36 

14,19 

from ( see also Rules 1-3, p. 



Suspension of, aliens detained 



27). 

1 

4 

as witnesses (see also Rule 14, 



Ports of entry from, designa- 



P- 38). 

19 

13 

tion of ( see also Rules 24, 26, 



Transoceanic ports, to, when. 

35 

19 

pp. 46, 51). 

36 

19 

Unlawful residents and pub- 



See also Canada; Mexico. 



lie charges within 3 years to 



Contract laborers: 



country whence they came; 



Definition of term “skilled 



how expenses are borne.... 

20 

14 

and unskilled laborers.” 



Where to. 

20,21,35 

14,19 

See Rule 21j, p. 42. 



See also Rules 31-39, pp. 57-63. 



Exclusion of ( see also Classes 



Detail: 



not excluded). 

2 

6 

Officers to investigate public 



Exceptions in favor of foreign 



charges, of. 

22 

15 

exhibitors at fairs and ex- 



Officers to go abroad, of. 

22 

15 

T>n<!it.ir*ns fact, A nr. 29. 19021. 


78 

Detention: 



Importation of, a misde- 



As witness (see also Rule 14, 



mpfinnr 

4 

7 

p. 38). 

19 

13 

Informer’s shares. 


74 

Cost of, when borne by steam- 



Penalty for importing ( see also 



ship company. 

19 

13 

Penalties). 

5 

7 

Cost of, when borne by United 



Promise of employment to, 



States. 

19 

13 

prohibited. 

6 

7 

During course of inspection... 

16 

12 

Recovery of penalty for im- 



See also Cost of detention, etc.; 



porting, who may sue. 

5 

7 

Suspension. 



United States district attor- 



Diplomatic officers, exempted 



ney to prosecute suits. 

5 

7 

from the law (see also Rules 



Contract-labor laws: 



2b, 4, 29e, pp. 27, 28, 55). 

41 

21 

Acts Feb 26 1885: Mar. 3,1893. 


74, 75 

Diseased aliens: 



Act A nr 29 1902 


'78 

Exclusion of. 

2 

5 

Act Feb 20 1907 secs. 2,4,6,24. 


6-7,16 

Hospital treatment for (see 



Employment of special per- 


also Hospital treatment).... 

19,37 

13,19 

sons to enforce. 

24 

16 

Penalty for bringing to 



Enforcement of, how. 

24 

16 

United States (see also 



Contracts: 



Penalties). 


8 

For relief of aliens. 

22 

15 

See also Contagious diseases; 



For inspection on land bound- 



Medical examination; Tu- 



aries/.. 

32 

18 

berculosis. 
















































































INDEX. 


Subject. 

Sec. 

Page. 

Districts. See Rule 48, p. G9. 
Domestic servants, admission of. 

2 

6 

Domiciled aliens. See Rule 2d, 
p. 27; Children; Wives. 

Duties: 

Of Commissioner-General of 
Immigration. 

22 

15 

Of commissioners of immigra¬ 
tion . 

23 

15 

Of Immigration Commission.. 

39 

20 

Of Division of Information.... 

40 

21 

E. 

Employees (including officers, 

CLERKS, INSPECTORS, ETC.): 

Appointing and promoting... 

24 

15 

Compensation, how fixed. 

24 

15 

Encouraging immigration. See 
Advertising; Soliciting; Penal¬ 
ties. 

Entries, forms of. 

22 

15 

Entry. See Admission; Classes 
excluded, etc.; Classes not ex¬ 
cluded, etc.; Examination for 
entry; Inspection; Ports of en¬ 
try; Surreptitious entry. 

Epileptics: 

Excluded. 

2 

5 

Penalty for bringing. 

9 

8 

Evidence on appeal ( see also 
Rule 7, p. 32). 

25 

16-17 

Examination of aliens for en¬ 
try. See Rules 5, 25, 27, pp. 
29-30, 47-51, 52; Canada; Mex¬ 
ico; Inspection. 

Examination, medical. See 
Medical examination. 
Exceptions: 

To provision prohibiting ad¬ 
vertising for immigration... 

6 

7 

To payment of head tax, 
aliens from Guam, Porto, 
Rico, Hawaii. 

1 

5 

To repealing clause. 

43 

23 

Excluded classes: 

Not to pay head tax. See Rule 
2a, p. 27. 

See also Classes excluded from 
entry. 

Excluded classes, exceptions 
to. See Classes not excluded 
from entry. 

Exclusion. See Admission; De¬ 
portation; Transit. 

Exclusive privileges: 

Disposition of proceeds of 
(Rule 3, p. 28; amended by 
act Mar. 4, 1909, 35 Stat., 
981). 

30 

18 

Exchanging money, for. 

30 

18 

How granted. 

30 

18 

Keeping eating house, for. 

30 

18 

Other like privileges. 

30 

18 

Transporting passengers or 
baggage, for. 

30 

18 

Executive order, relative to 
Japanese and Korean laborers. 
See Rule 21, p. 40. 

Exemption from head tax. See 
Classes exempted from head tax. 
Expatriation, of citizens, and 
their protection abroad (act 
Mar. 2, 1907). 


80 

Expenses: 

Of assisting admitted aliens. 

See Rule 15, p. 38. 

Of attendant. 

11,21 

9,15 

Of detention, deportation, 
etc., of aliens. See Cost of 
deportation, detention, etc. 
Of hospital treatment. See 
Hospital treatment. n 

Of Immigration Commission.. 

39 

20 


Subject. 

Sec. 

Page. 

Expenses— Continued. 

The immigrant fund for pay¬ 
ment of all expenses of serv¬ 
ice, etc. (amended by act 
Mar. 4,1909, making annual 
appropriation, 35 Stat., 981). 

1 

4 

Expositions. See Fairs. 

F. 

• 


Fairs and expositions, contract 
laborers at. See Contract la¬ 
borers. 

False swearing, constitutes per¬ 
jury (see also Perjury). 

24 

16 

Feeble-minded persons. See 
Classes excluded from entry, in¬ 
sane persons. 

Fines. See Penalties. 

Foreign countries, detail of offi¬ 
cials for duty in. 

22 

15 

Foreign exhibitors. See Con¬ 
tract laborers. 

Foreign officials. See Diplo¬ 
matic officers. 

Forms, of bonds, reports, entries, 
and other papers prescribed by 
Commissioner-General. 

22 

15 

G. 

Guam: 

Aliens arriving in, excepted 
from head tax. 

1 

5 

Aliens from, to pay head tax.. 

1 

5 

See also Rule 2h, p. 28. 
Manifests of aliens from. 

12 

10 

Guardian en voyage: 

Expenses of, borne by trans¬ 
portation companies. 

11,21 

9,15 

For insane persons deported.. 

11,21 

9,15 

When furnished. 

11,21 

9,15 

See also Attendants. 

II. 

Harboring or holding prosti¬ 
tutes, penalty for (provision 
declared unconstitutional, 213 
U. S., 139). 

3 

7 

Hawah: 

Aliens entering, not to pay 
head tax. 

1 

5 

Aliens from, to pay head tax.. 

1 

5 

See also Rule 2h, p. 28, and 
Rule 50, p. 70. 

Manifest of aliens from. 

12 

10 

Head tax: 

Accounting for. See Rule 3, 

p. 28. 

Amount of. 

1 

3 

By whom paid. 

1 

4 

Canada, account of, aliens 
from. See Rule 25, pp. 47-51. 

Classes exempted from pay¬ 
ment of. (See Classes ex¬ 
empted from payment of 
head tax.) 

Deposit of. 

1 

4 

Exceptions: Guam, Porto 
Rico, Hawaii. 

1 

5 

How payment enforced. 

1 

4 

Levying' and collection of. 

1 

4 

Mexico, account of aliens 
from. See Rule 27, pp. 51-53. 

Payment and collection of, on 
account of aliens from con¬ 
tiguous territory ( see also 
Rules 1, 2, 25, 27, pp. 27, 
47-52). 

1 

4 

Refund of (act Feb. 3, 1905)... 


78 

Aliens in transit. See 
Rule 41, p. 64. 

Seamen to pay, when. See 
Rule 22, pp. 42-46. 


























































INDEX 


89 


Subject. 

Sec. 

Page. 

Head tax—C ontinued. 



Stowaways. See Rule 23, p. 
46. 

To be lien on vessel.. 

1 

4 

To constitute immigrant fund 
(repealed by act Mar. 4, 
1909, making annual appro¬ 
priation for immigration 
service). 

1 

4 

To whom paid... 

1 

4 

Transit, on aliens in. See 
Transit. 

See also Rules 1-3, pp. 26-28. 
Hearings, before board of special 
inquiry, private. 

25 

17 

Holding aliens as witnesses. 

See Rule 14, p. 38; Witnesses. 
Hospital treatment: 

Aliens landing for. 

19,37 

13,19 

By permission of Secretary... 

19,37 

13,19 

Children of domiciled aliens, 
of. 

37 

19 

19 

19 

13 

13 

Detained aliens as witnesses, 

of. 

Diseased aliens, of. 

Expenses of, borne by whom 
(see also Rule 13 c, d, p. 37). 

19 

13,14 

Insane aliens, of. 

19 

14 

Wives of domiciled aliens, of.. 

37 

19 

See also Rules 10-13, pp. 34-37. 

I. 

Idiots, penalty for bringing ( see 
also Classes excluded from en¬ 
try; Insane persons). 

9 

8 

Imbeciles, penalty for bringing 
(see also Classes excluded from 
entry). 

9 

8 

Immigrant fund, creation of (re¬ 
pealed by act Mar. 4,1909, mak¬ 
ing annual appropriation; 35 
Stat., 981). 

1 

3 

Immigration commission: 

Authority and duties of. 

39 

20 

Expenses of, how paid. 

39 

20 

How appointed. 

39 

20 

Immigration officers: 

Appointment, compensation, 
promotion. 

24 

15-16 

Power to administer oaths 
( see also Rule 43, p. 66). 

24 

16 

To consider* evidence. 

24 

16 

Immoral purpose, bringing 
aliens in for. See Prostitutes. 

Importation of contract la¬ 
borers. See Contract laborers. 

Importation of prostitutes. 
See Prostitutes. 

Incoming passengers, manifest 
of ( see also Manifest). 

12-13 

£-10 

Infants. See Children; Attend¬ 
ants. 

Information division: 

Duties and authority of, etc.. 

40 

21 

Establishment of. 

40 

21 

Inquiry, board of special. See 
Boards of special inquiry. 
Insane persons: 

Attendants for, when de¬ 
ported ( see also Attend¬ 
ants). 

11,21 

9,15 

Deportation of. 

21 

14 

Exclusion of. 

2 

5 

Holding for treatment, ex¬ 
pense of immigrant fund.... 

19 

14 

Persons insane within 5 years 
previous, exclusion of.'. 

2 

5 

Persons previously having 
two or more attacks of in¬ 
sanity, exclusion of. 

2 

5 

See also Classes excluded, and 
rules relating to admission, 
exclusion, and deportation 
(Nos. 4-39, pp. 28-63). 




Subject. 

Sec. 

Page. 

Inspection: 

Aliens from Canal Zone ( see 
Canal Zone). 

33 

19 

Immigration officers respon¬ 
sible for aliens placed in sta¬ 
tions for. 

16 

12 

Landing for, not actual land¬ 
ing. 

16 

12 

On board vessel.... 

16 

12 

Primary inspection. See 
Rule 5, p. 29. 

Temporary removal from ves¬ 
sel for. 

16 

12 

See also Examination, etc., 
Canada; Mexico. 
Inspectors: 

Appointment of. 

24 

15 

Compensation of. 

24 

15 

Promotion of. 

24 

15 

Insular possessions: 

Admissible residents of, ex¬ 
emption from head tax, 
when, see also Rule 2e, 
P- 27). 

1 

4 

Passports from, not honored, 
when. 

1 

5 

See also Guam; Hawaii; Porto 
Rico; Philippines. 
International conference: 
President authorized to ar¬ 
range for. 

39 

20 

Purpose of. 

39 

21 

Intoxicating liquors, sale pro¬ 
hibited at stations. 

30 

18 

J. 

Japanese and Korean labor¬ 
ers, admission and exclusion 
of. See Rules 4,21, pp. 29,49-42. 
Jurisdiction: 

Of circuit and district courts.. 

29 

18 

Of peace officers of States, etc., 
and local courts shall ex¬ 
tend to crimes committed 
in immigration stations. 

31 

18 

K. 

Korean laborers. See Japa¬ 
nese and Korean laporers. 

Li. 

Labor conditions, passports det¬ 
rimental to ( see also Japanese 
and Korean laborers). 

1 

5 

Laborers, contract. See Con¬ 
tract laborers. 

Laborers, Japanese and Ko¬ 
rean. See Rules 4, 21, pp. 29, 
40-42. 

Laborers,skilled or unskilled: 
Definition of term. See Rule 

2 ij, p. 42. 

When admitted. 

2 

6 

Labor laws, contract. See 
Contract-labor laws. 

Land boundaries: 

Contracts for. 

32 

18 

Inspection on. 

32 

18 

Rules for. 

32 

18 

See also Ports of entry; Can¬ 
ada; Mexico. 

Landing of aliens, unlawful. 

See Unlawful landing. 

Landing for inspection, not 

ACTUAL LANDING. 

16 

12 

Landing under bond. See Bond. 
Laws not repealed by or reen¬ 
acted IN ACT OF 1907: 

Act Aug. 3, 1882, to regulate 

immigration. 

Act Feb. 26,1885, contract la¬ 
bor. 


73 

74 












































































90 


INDEX. 


Subject. 

Sec. 

Page. 

Laws not repealed by or re- 



ENACTED IN ACT OF 1907—Con. 
Act Mar. 3,1891, creating office 
of Superintendent of Immi¬ 
gration . 


75 

Act Feb. 15, 1893, quarantine 
of infectious or contagious 
diseases. 


75 

Act Mar. 3, 1893, enforcement 
contract labor and immi¬ 
gration laws. 

Act Aug. 18, 1894, appoint¬ 
ment of commissioners of 

immigration. 

Act Mar. 2, 1895, changing 
designation to Commission¬ 
er-General of Immigration.. 
Act June 6, 1900, administra- 
tration of Chinese-exclusion 
laws placed under Commis¬ 
sioner-General . 


70 

77 

77 

77 

Act Apr. 29, 1902, admission 
of contract laborers, exeept- 
tions in favor of exhibitors 

at fairs and expositions. 

Act Feb. 3, 1905, refund of 
head tax. 


78 

78* 

Act Feb. 0, 1905, immigration 
laws for Philippine Islands.. 


79 

Act Mar. 3, 1905,* payment in 
advance for publications_ 


79 

Act June 29, *1900, changing 
to Bureau of Immigration 
and Naturalization. 


79-80 

Act Mar. 2, 1907, expatriation 
of citizens, and their pro¬ 
tection abroad. 


80-81 

Learned professions, admis¬ 
sion of persons belonging to. 

2 

6 

Lecture*rs, admission of. 

2 

6 

Lien upon vessel, head tax to 
be; enforcement of. 

1 

4 

Loathsome diseases. See Con¬ 
tagious diseases. 

Lunatics. See Idiots; Insane 
persons. 

M. 

Maintenance of excluded 
aliens. See Cost of deporta¬ 
tion and detention of aliens. 

Manifests: 

Delivery of, to immigration 
officers. 

12 

9 

Failure to deliver, penalty 
for. 

12,15 

10,11 

Of incoming passengers... 

12 

9 

Of outgoing passengers.... 

12 

10 

Diplomatic officers. See Rule 
29e, p. 55. 

How made up (see also Rule 
49, p. 70). 

13 

10 

Incoming passengers, what to 
contain. 

12 

9 

Of aliens from Philippines, 
Guam, Porto Rico, and 
Hawaii. 

12 

10 

Outgoing passengers, what to 
contain (sec. 12 not appli¬ 
cable to vessels exclusively 
in trade between United 
States and Canada and 
Mexico; act Mar. 4, 1909, 
P- 24). 

12 

10 

Penalty can not be remitted. 

See Rule 29c, p. 55. 

Penalty for failure or neglect 
to manifest (see also Rule 29, 
pp. 55-56). 

12,15 

10,11 

Penalty for failure to deliver 
manifests (see also Rule 29, 
p. 55). 

15 

11 

Seamen, if not bona fide, of. 
See Rule 22e, p. 44. 




Subject. 

Sec. 

Page. 

Manifests—C ontinued. 

Stowaways. See Rule 23, 
p. 46. 

To be signed and sworn to by 
master. 

13 

11 

To be signed and sworn to by 
surgeon ( see also Rule 29g, 
P- 55). 

13 

11 

With whom deposited. 

12 

10 

Meaning of term “United 



States”. 

33 

19 

Medical examination: 

By Public Health and Ma¬ 
rine-Hospital Service sur¬ 
geons (see also Rule 9, 
pp. 32-34). 

17 

12 

Cost of, borne' by ( see also act 
Mar. 4 1909). 


23 

Detail o/ surgeons abroad. 

22 

15 

Public Health and Marine- 
IIospital Service to be re¬ 
imbursed (repealed by act 

Mar. 4, 1909, p. 23). 

See also Hospital treatment. 

Medical treatment. See Hos¬ 
pital treatment. 

Mentally defective persons, 
exclusion of ( see also Insane per¬ 
sons) . 

17 

12 

2 

5 

Mexico: 

Entry and inspection of aliens 
from (Rules 1, 2, 26-27, pp. 
27, 51-54). 

32 

IS 

Head tax on aliens from, 
when and where not to be 
levied (Rules 2, 27, pp. 27, 
51-53. 

1 

4 

Ports of entry along borders of 
(Rule 26, p. 51). 

36 

19 

See also Manifests, outgoing 
passengers. 



Ministers of the gospel, admis¬ 
sion of. 

2 

6 

Minor children. See Children. 
Moral turpitude, offenses in¬ 
volving. 

2 

5 

1> T . 

Name of Bureau, changing 
same. See Bureau. 

Naturalization. See Expatria¬ 
tion. 

Naturalization laws, placed 
under Bureau of Immigration 
and Naturalization (act of June 
29.1906). 


79-80 

Navigation act: 

Amendment of. 

42 

22 

Sec. 1 of passenger act not 
amended. 

43 

23 

Newfoundland, head tax on 
aliens from, when not to be 
levied (see also Rule 2, p. 27)_ 

1 

4 

New. Orleans, appointment of 
commissioner at. 

34 

19 

Notice of appeal: 

Filing by alien. See Rule 5, 
p. 29. 

To act as stay of deportation. 

See Rule 7, p. 32. 

See also Appeals. 

Notice of sailings, master of 
vessel to give. See Rule 19, p. 
39. 

o. 

Oaths: 

Administered by immigra¬ 
tion officers ( see also Rule 

43, p. 65). 

Boards of special inquiry, of. 

See Rule 17, p. 38. 

Manifests to be sworn to. 

24 

16 

13-14 

11 

Offenses, political, aliens guilty 
of, when admitted. 

2 

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INDEX. 


91 


Subject. 


Official communications. See 
Rule 45, p. 66. 

Outgoing passengers, manifest 
of (see also Manifest). 


P. 


Panama. See Canal Zone. 
Passage of aliens, paid by socie¬ 
ties, etc. See Assisted aliens. 
Passenger act, sec. 1 of, not 

amended. 

Passengers. See Manifests. 
Passports: 

Of Japanese and Korean la¬ 
borers. See Rule 21, pp. 
41-42. 

When used to detriment of 
labor conditions, holders to 

be rejected. 

See also Expatriation. 

Paupers, exclusion of. 

Payment of head tax. See 
Head tax. 

Peace officers of states, etc., 
admission to immigration sta¬ 
tions . 

Penalties: 

Against vessel for refusal or 
failure to deport on war¬ 
rant. 

Anarchists, assisting to enter. 

Collection of, under sec. 9. 

Contract laborers, importing.. 
Diseased aliens, idiots, etc., 

bringing.. 

Encouraging immigration by 

advertising, etc. 

Failure to deport, hold, or 
maintain aliens ordered de¬ 
ported. 

Manifests— 

Failure to deliver. 

Violation of sec. 12 rela¬ 
tive thereto. 


X 


Navigation act, violation of 

amendment to. 

Perjury, false swearing before 

immigration officers. 

Prosecutions for recovery of. 
See Rule 30a, p. 56. 

Prostitutes, importing. 

Remission of, can not be 
done for failure to deliver 
manifests. See Rule 29c, 
p. 55. 

Reporting of. See Rule 30, 
pp. 55-56. 

Security, taking from de¬ 
ported aliens. 

Soliciting immigration by 
transportation companies... 
Unlawful landing of aliens by 
vessels or transportation 

companies. 

See also Rules 28-30, pp. 53-56. 

Perjury, penalty for. 

Persons physically or mental¬ 
ly defective, exclusion of (see 
also Attendants; Insane per¬ 
sons; Public charges). 

Philippines: 

Administration of immigra¬ 
tion laws in (act Feb. 6, 

1905). 

Immigration rules not apply¬ 
ing to. 

Manifest of aliens from. 

Political offenses, persons 

guilty of, when admitted. 

Polygamists, exclusion of. 

Porto Rico: 

Aliens arriving in, are exempt¬ 
ed from head tax. 


Sec. 


12-15 


43 


1 

2 

31 


21 

38 

9 

5 


6 

19 

15 

12 

42 

24 


19 

7 

8-18 

24 


12 

2 

2 


Page. 


10-11 


23 


18 


14 

20 

8 

7 


13 

11 

10 

23 

16 


13 

7-8 

8-13 

16 


79 

26 

10 

6 

5 


Subject. 


Porto Rico—C ontinued. 

Aliens from, to pay head tax 
(see also Rule 2h, p. 28, and 

Rule 50, p. 70). 

Manifest of aliens from. 

Ports of entry, designation of 
(see also Rules 24, 26, pp. 47,51) 
Posting of immigration acts 
and laws, by steamship com¬ 
panies in foreign offices (act 
Mar. 3, 1893) (see also Rule 44, 
P-66)... 

President’s proclamation, rel¬ 
ative to Japanese and Korean 
laborers. See Rule 21, p. 40. 
Privileges. See Exclusive priv¬ 
ileges. 

Procurers of prostitutes: 

Exclusion of. 

Penalty for. 

See also Arrest; Deportation. 
Professional beggars, exclu¬ 
sion of. 

Professional persons, not ex¬ 
cluded. 

Professors of seminaries and 

colleges, not excluded. 

Prosecution of offenders. See 
Arrests; Penalties; Suits; War¬ 
rants; Witnesses. 

Prostitutes: 

Deportation of, within 3 years 

(see also Rule 31c, p. 57)_ 

Exclusion of. 

Harboring or holding (provi¬ 
sion declared unconstitu¬ 
tional, 213 U. S., 139). 

Importation of, forbidden.... 

Penalty for importing. 

Procurers of, excluded. 

See also Arrest; Deportation; 
Penalties. 

Publications, payment for in ad¬ 
vance (act Mar. 3, 1905)....•_ 

Public charges: 

Admission under bond (see 

also Bond). 

Deportation of (see also Rules 

31-39, pp. 57-63).. 

Detail ofofficers to investigate. 

Exclusion of... 

Expense of deportation, how 
borne (see also Cost of, etc.). 
Investigating same in public 

institutions. 

Rules relating to deportation 

of. 

See also Classes excluded from 
entry. 

Public Health and Marine- 
Hospital Service: 

Cost of, how defrayed (act 

Mar. 4,1909). 

Medical examinations by_ 

Quarantine, powers and du¬ 
ties relative to (act Feb. 15, 

1893). 

See also Medical examina¬ 
tion. 

Q. 

Quarantine. See Public Health 
and Marine-Hospital Service. 

It. 

Refund of head tax: 

Authorized by act Feb. 3,1905. 
On aliens in transit. See 
Transit. 

Regulations, preparation of (see 

also Rules). 

Releasing arrested aliens un¬ 
der bond (see also Bond). 


Sec. 


1 

12 

36 


Page. 


5 

10 

19 


73 


5 

6 


5 

6 
6 


26 

20-21 

22 

2 

20 

22 


83 

5 


6 

6 

7 

5 


79 

17 

14 

15 
5 

14 

15 
56—63 


17 


22-23 

20 


23 

12 


75 


78 

15 

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92 


INDEX 


Subject. 

Sec. 

Page. 

Repealing clause, exceptions to. 
Return. See Deportation. 
Rules: 

For inspection and entry on 

43 

23 

land boundaries. 

32 

18 

General, establishment of. 

See also Regulations. 

S. 

Sailings, notice of. Sec Rule 19, 
p. 39. 

Seamen, application of act to. 

See Rule 22, pp. 42-46. 

Servants (personal or domes- 

22,23,38 

15,20 

tic), not excluded. 

Singers, professional, not ex- 

2 

6 

eluded. 

Skilled laborers, when admit¬ 
ted ( see also Laborers, skilled 

2 

6 

and unskilled). 

Soliciting: 

Bv transportation companies, 

2 

6 

forbidden. 

7 

7 

Penalty for. 

See also Advertising. 

Special inquiry, boards of. 

See Boards of special inquiry. 
States: 

Agents of, stationed at ports 
for distribution of informa- 

7 

8 

tion, etc. 

Institutions of, may sue on 

40 

21 

public-charge bonds. 

26 

17 

May advertise for immigration 
Peace officers of, admitted to 

6 

7 

Immigrant stations. 

To investigate public charges 

. 31 

18 

in institutions of. 

Statutes. See Chinese; Laws 
not repealed, etc.; Navigation 
act; Passenger act; Repealing 
clause. 

Steamship companies to be fur¬ 
nished with notice of rejection 
of appeals of aliens. See 
Rules 5-8, pp. 29-32; also De¬ 
portation Transportation com¬ 
panies; Posting of immigration 
laws. 

Stowaways, application of act to. 
See Rule 23, p. 46. 

Suites of foreign representa¬ 
tives. See Diplomatic officers. 

Suits: 

22 

15 

Bringing suits upon bonds.... 
Compromise, settlement, or 

26 

17 

discontinuance of. 

27 

18 

Jurisdiction of courts. 

Prosecution of, in contract- 

29 

18 

labor cases. 

Prosecution for recovery of 
fines. See Rule 30a, p. 56. 
Under former acts not affected 

5 

7 

by act of 1907. 

See also Contract laborers; 
Jurisdiction. 

Surreptitious entry: 

Deportation of. See Deporta¬ 
tion. 

Penalty for. See Penalties. 

28 

18 

Unlawful entry. 

36 

19 

Unlawful landing. 

See Rules24,26,31d, p.46,51,57. 
Suspension of deportation 
(see also Detention; Cost of de- 

8,18 

8,13 

portafjion, etc.). 

T. 

Tax, head. See Classes exempted 
from, etc.; Head tax. 
Telegraphing, code for. See 
Rule 46, p. 66. 

19 

13 


Subject. 

Sec. 

Page. 

Temporary removal. See In¬ 
spection. 

Territories: 

Institutions of, may sue on 
public-charge bonds. 

26 

17 

May advertise for immigra¬ 
tion . 

6 

7 

Peace officers of, admitted to 
immigration stations. 

31 

18 

To investigate public charges 
in institutions of.7... 

22 

15 

Tourists in transit. See 
Transit. 

Trachoma. See Contagious dis¬ 
eases. 

Transoceanic ports: 

Deportation to be to. 

35 

19 

See also Rule 38, p. 63. 
Transportation companies: 

Cost of deportation borne by.. 

19 

13 

Penalty for bringing diseased 
aliens. 

9 

8 

Soliciting by, forbidden. 

7 

8 

To bear expense of guardian 
on voyage. 

11 

9 

See also Steamship compa¬ 
nies; Cost of deportation, 
etc. 

Transit: 

Assisted aliens in, not ex¬ 
cluded. 

2 

6 

Examination of aliens in. 

See Rule 40, p. 64. 

Excluded classes, members of, 
refused landing. See Rule 
40, p. 64. 

Head tax— 

Aliens in, exempted from 
(see also Rule 2f, p. 27)... 

1 

4 

Aliens in, from one place 
in United States to an¬ 
other through contigu¬ 
ous territory, exempt 
from ( see also Rule 2g, 
P-28). 

1 

4 

Collecting and refunding 
on transits from Can¬ 
ada. See Rule 41, p. 
64. 

Must be deposited for 
aliens in. See Rule 41, 
p. 64. 

On tourists in, different 
practice relating to. 
See Rule 41, p. 64. 

Refunded upon departure 
of aliens in. See Rule 
41, p. 64. 

Refunding head tax to aliens 
in. See Rule 41, p. 64. 

Tourists in. See Rule 41, p. 64. 

Tuberculosis: 

See also Rules 31-39, pp. 57- 
63; Contagious diseases; 
Medical examinations. 

Decision of board of special in¬ 
quiry to be final, when. 

10 

9 

Exclusion of aliens afflicted 
with. 

2 

5 

Hospital treatment for ( see 
also Hospital treatment).... 

19 

13-14 

Penalty for bringing. 

9 

8 

U. 

Uniforms, rules as to. 


66-68 

19 

7 

“United States,” meaning of 
term. 

33 

5 

United States attorneys, to 
prosecute suits in contract-labor 
cases ( see also Suits). 

Unlawful landing. See De¬ 
portation; Penalties; Landing; 
Surreptitious entry. 
























































INDEX 


93 


Subject. 

Sec. 

Page. 

Subject. 

Sec. 

Page. 

Y. 



f 

W arr ants— Continued. 



Vessels: 



See Rules 31, 34-35, pp. 57-58; 



Clearance papers not to be 



Arrests. 



granted, when. 

9,12 

8,10 

White-slave traffic. See Pros- 



Head tax a lien upon. 

1 

4 

titutes; Procurers. 



Refusal of, to deport on war- 



Witnesses: 



rant, penalty for. 

19 

13 

Authority to hold... 

19 

13 

To return deported aliens. 

19 

13 

Detention of aliens as. 

19 

13 

See also Deportation; Mani- 



See also Rules 10, 14, pp. 34,38. 



fests. 



Wives of domiciled aliens: 



W. 



Admission of. 

37 

19 

Warrants: 



Hospital treatment for. 

37 

19 

Arrest of aliens under. 

20-21 

14 

See also Rules 9f, 11,13, pp. 33, 



Penalty against vessel for re- 



30-37. 



fusal or failure to deport on 






warrant. 

21 

14 





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